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Started up my 82 GL500 for the first time in a questionable amount of years and noticed some (maybe) white smoke. I've searched the interwebs but have had a hard time finding an exact explanation with images of exhaust smoke and what it means, to compare to. It has brand new oil + filter...

Hi everyone, Last night, after completing the weekend ride of 250 miles, I noticed smoke coming up from the front of the engine. The smoke smelled like oil, hitting something hot, maybe the exhaust/turbo area. It was hard to trace back, but it seems like it was coming from behind the radiator...

So, I pulled the clutch basket out of my bike and discovered that my suspicions were right (it was actually in much worse condition than expected). My clutch was fried to the point that the fiber disks were deteriorated and started crumbling off of their disks in some chunks, and the steel...