Couple notes to the cleaning of the jets/carbs.
1) Never use a wire (even though I love guitar strings) to even remotely touch a carb jet: you will distort them via scratches at the least, at the worst totally ruin them.
2) Good but gentler carb cleaner: Honda Compression Cylinder Cleaner. It is...
I have no idea where you are with this at this late stage: but if it only smokes on start-up, on the side-stand side (left), then it is as simple as dried out valve seals. They can be replaced in-situ, without removing the head using a air-input compression maintainer to keep the valve closed)...
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We've been around for 12 years, supplying Goldwing parts for the GL1000, GL1100, GL1200, and some GL1500 models, and have sent parts to pretty much every...