Looking closer those scratches are really uniform and evenly spaced apart like the oil ring scrapers are not holding the center section of the oil ring in place. Maybe that rough crosshatch wore the oil ring scrapers down letting the center section rub more than it should or, one of the scrapers seated above or below the center spacer letting it come out and rub the cylinder wall. Whatever the problem is that oil ring center spacer should not be out against the wall making those marks.


I love the smell of Deer guts in the morning, it smells like... VICTORY!