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Originally Posted by spydah  One possibility is that your rings are junk. Thusly gas would enter into the crank case, and oil would enter into the combustion chamber and make lots of white smoke. The poor performance would be due to lack of compression. You should do a compression test just to make sure that is not whats going on. |
Thanks for your input, Spydah. The bike has 17K miles on it...never beaten. It's a '97. From what youre saying, if my rings are shot...any unburned gas going into the combustion chamber is making it past the rings....into the oil, and then coming back up past the rings and then burning as the smoke? Do I have that right? That would mean an awful lot of gas is going unburned and getting past the rings...I forgot to mention...Ive only put 500 miles on since last summer and fall, right before the smoking started in October, and this started all at once...if my rings were going, wouldnt the smoking be a gradual thing?