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Message: [QUOTE="podfish, post: 1192096, member: 77606"] it's an old (87) KDX200; it has as much power as I'd expect it to have, and seems to run great. But it puts out a lot of smoke. I run 32:1 as per the manual. I have a compression tester but I haven't gotten a consistent answer as to how to tell good vs bad compression on a 2stroke - and even if it was bad, I don't see how that would make it smoke. I hesitate to do a full top-end when it's running fine, but on the other hand it seems the smoke's a sign something's not right. Even though I don't see any need to rebuild it just to squeeze out every last bit of power, I don't want to neglect it to the point where it'll kill it prematurely. So how do I judge when it really needs rebuilding? and where should I start looking for the cause of the excess smoke? [/QUOTE]