Hohn
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I've watched every video on that series, I'll save you the trouble. The engine has major issues that unsticking an oil ring or two cannot and does not resolve. One of his videos showed borescope shots with stream of oil pouring down the cylinder walls with the piston at BDC. That to me isn't a ring issue-- he has a headgasket or something letting oil pour into the bores.My take from that is it was probably much worse before he started experimenting. How did the cylinder bores look? My guess (I don't have time to look up the video now) is there was already so much ring and liner wear that no amount of cleaning was going to stop the oil transport past the rings.