Ill start from the beginning. I bought this bike as a stock 1980 xs 650 special and i was 19 years old. i originally went with the brat set up from visual impact because i planned on this being my daily rider and my old man thought a hard tail would be to much as a daily rider. I installed a pma and a pamco on the bike and everything was coming along. About halfway through my dad suffered a heart attack and passed. I am not by any means mechanically inclined so my god father stepped in to help. we got the bike running with unipod filters, stock set up bs34 carbs and open pipes. i took the carbs off and have had nothing but problems since. I rebuilt the carbs and made some adjustments on the jets from recommendations from mike over at xs650 central. as soon as they were back on the bike it wouldnt start. I had bought another bike so this isnt going to be my daily rider so i went a head and hard tailed the bike, rewired it myself and even threw the electric start back on. i figured i would just start fresh with some vm34 carbs. the carbs have the correct float height, 6F9 needle, P-6 Needle jet, 185 main jet, and a 25 pilot at the moment. i can get the bike running momentarily but with white exhaust coming out of the pipes with oil (and gas?). I can sit there and WATCH the gas go down on the sight gauge. The engine has 120 psi on each side for compression so i figure the rings are ok. I believe my gas is going to the oil somehow because the oil smells like gas and the oil level goes up. I adjusted the cam chain, valves (.002 inlet, .004 exhaust) and set the timing (in that order) and none of this solved the problem. Im at a complete loss and tired of dumping money into this...... Any ideas what the issue is?
