Spitting oil through tailpipes.

Ironmike said

Whether this is my oil issue or not, I have no clue. My cylinders look like normal. Nice crosshatch still there.........I have to believe ANY ring problem would foul plugs, I hope.

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You can get modest oil burning and not see much anything on the plugs.... my old 351C would smoke like crazy at hard throttle when the rings and bores got well worn, but there was not any real change on the plugs. When you see a plug oil fouled, something has really gone downhill.

The crosshatch is not any particular indicator of a ring oiling issue one way or the other. (If it were oiling mildly, one might actually expect less wear on the bores....)

It could be something as simple as the 2nd ring flipped upside down and thus not properly scraping the extra oil off.