[Vwdiesel] lower compression?

[Brian and Ruth Decker]

Hi Sandy;
	I always use the most notches available when doing a 1.5 or 1.6
diesel. Saves on measuring piston height. This time I want to lower the
compression more than a 3 notch will do. My machinist says he will chuck the
pistons up in a lathe and take off however much I want for less than 20
bucks a piston. I just have to figure out if what it would be judicious to
take off would lower the compression hopefully about a couple of points or
so.
Brian Decker

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Cameron [mailto:scameron at storm.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 4:18 PM
To: Brian and Ruth Decker; vwdiesel at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] lower compression?

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