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i kind of figured that, but will have to deal with that at another time.
If it's the issue, you may be dealing with it sooner 
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if it's sucking past the PCV, then i should see a drop in oil use, is that what you mean? if it's the rings, then obviously that won't help, but at least i eliminate this as a source.
That is what I meant, yes. Try to isolate and remove the possibile causes one at a time. Breather, PCV, gasket leaks. The only real hard evidence you have is oil levels dropping an bad leakdown. Those alone are not enough to determine a cause.  Keep after it! 
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
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