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It sounds more like the va. seals...When they are worn the sign is it smokes on fire-up due to the oil running down the valve stem passed the worn seal. I'm picturing the seals to be cracked and brittle/non-existant, so I can see it running like crap sitting over-night. I could also see, of course squinting real hard, that as long as this engine has been sitting that now you have an oil fouled cylinder that is now allowing oil to be sucked up into the intake and is making its way into the intake and effecting other cylinders. As easy/cheap as it is to change out the va. seals I'd do that and hope for the best...but then again these heads probably don't have hardened seats, so it may be better to bite the built.