Surely it refers to the rings of the pistons, your problem can be the so -called "vent" which lifts carter oil for not correctly closing the shirts with the pistons.
An easy test is with the hot engine running, remove the acite cap of the valve lid (where you made aceiter

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if it comes out a lot of smoke under pressure and light color is that it is burning you oil and that is the problem. Another is to measure compression as recommended.
Greetings and good luck with that.