hi wildthing, just a note on your oil fouled plugs...it's gotta be either a bad oil ring on the piston, or bad valve stem oil seals. One way to check is to get that compression tester and do a dry reading on all cylinders and record the results. Then squirt some oil into each cylinder and take a second set of readings. If the readings are higher, ya need new rings. Either way, you'll probably have to rebuild the head or the bottom end. Hope this helps.

Roughneck