[Alvy]

Well I want to say thank you guys very much for the advice. Turns out I am a chucklehead and put the middle ring on the top and the compression ring in the middle as well as no honing. Took out motor last night and got it apart. I will say that it's confusing still to me, I found a thread with a guy on here with my exact problem and he had the same instructions/images that came with his Stens kit which are very vague and unclear as far as im concerned. I found an image of the kohler rings and they are individually packaged with clear instructions on them. Funny thing is there are so many different opinion on how rings go with members on here and other sites, youtube, etc, and some people are so confident in being wrong too! Anyway,i guess I learned my lesson and will make sure next time to do the necessary leg work, research, and get the good stuff. I honed the cylinder as you guys said and it looked great, ring end gap was good also. Put it all back together with different rings and all torque specs and it's awesome, no smoke other than its a little rich upon hard acceleration but I can deal with that. It smoked so bad before it was almost unbearable. Pics to come but wanted to let you guys know.

Edit to add pics of lake Kohler