So the test ride didn't go well.

The leak was as bad. Although I removed the dowels and their packing o-rings, turns out my MLS gasket had the large holes to accommodate the dowels and rings. So go figure.

It was suggested to check the positioning dowels and though I doubted they were the problem, but I couldn't be sure, I dove back in and checked them to be Ok. I had ground enough off for clearance. I am the first in the world to have a MLS gasket fail I think. I can't determine what I've done wrong if I have. As another test, I had removed all o rings, dowels and the gasket and set the head down onto the cylinder and can see no interference that would prevent a good gasket squish.
Now I've placed the paper/fiber type gasket that came with my ebay pistons. I've put the dowels and o-rings back in, sprayed the gasket with copper coat and torqued to 21 lbs. Tomorrow, I will second torque and put it all back together again. Crossing my fingers.
Thankfully, I put in a frame kit.

Thankfully, I have a patient wife as the honey do list is waiting another week.

Oh, Almost forgot... my head light on/off switch now operates like it should. It's either a flaky switch or the safety inspector fiddled with it. I'm thinking flaky switch as I'm sure he would have said something.