[Vwdiesel] lower compression?

[Sandy Cameron]

At 04:03 PM 11/17/2011 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Folks;
>
>                I would like to lower the compression ratio a little in my
>1.6 turbo diesel. I'm wondering if I can take the pistons to my local
>machinist and have him chuck them in a lathe and take a few (as yet
>undetermined ) thousands off the top of the pistons. 

How about just replacing the head gasket with a 3 notch?

I usually do that when doing a gasket job, rather than bother with the
piston height measurement. Has worked every (many) times.

Sandy