White smoke means...?

[big torque]

So here's my problem...  I got wonderful '89 GS, but she was pissin gas out the carb overflow tube, and spewing white smoke.

From the posts on this board, I figured out the floats were sticking in the carbs.  So I took them apart, found all sorts of crud (not varnish, but sooty like dirt) inside.  I probably need to Kreem the tank, maybe replace the fuel filters that the previous owner had with new ones.

That fixed the gas problem, but it's still smoking like crazy.  It's coming from the exhaust and somewhere else on the engine that I can't identify.  Possibly the oil filter.  I've read that white smoke usually indicates water?  How can I tell for sure, and how can I make it go away?  

I would think it's related to the carb problem somehow.  :dunno: I mean there's a lot of smoke and it was an overnight thing.  It ran well enough a couple weeks ago.

Any thoughts?

[davipu]

here's a thought, ask a mod to move this to GD.

[big torque]

Whoops.  Mods, can you please move this to general?

[The Buddha]

Its prolly all that spillage from the leaky carbs. White smoke out the pipe can be the cleaners you used to clean the crabs, water in the gas and super rich mix. BTW your air box prolly has a ton of gas in it as well.
Cool.
Srinath.