That Sweet White Smoke

[Dirty Dave]

Seems oil was getting past the gasket into #3 combustion chamber combining
with exhaust carbon making a different flavour of chocolate milk shake.

More like mocha.
Valve guides were fine but swapped 'em out 'cause I was in there and
resurfaced the valve seats.

[Sidecar Bob]

The water jacket is between the oil and the cylinder so that would be the type of failure where it failed between the cylinder and the coolant and the pressure from combustion blew it out to the oil.

[Dirty Dave]

Well after 5 years of down time, complete carb disassembly, stator & rotor replacement and
refreshing the right head with valve seals, head gasket & valve grind..... (too lazy to do the other side)
finally complete and running like it used to.

Boy am I slow, but worth the wait to ride her again.
Thanks for the tips here. Did the job right this time.

[Fred Camper]

Nice that you no longer need to push her. Gotta like that.

[Dirty Dave]

After pushing for 5 years I developed some muscles though.....

Kinda like Conan the Barbarian on that big stone wheel.