"botched oil relief valve"
My leak stopper piston was jammed open. If the bike was parked for a few days the oil would slowly drain from the tank, not too big of a deal IMHO.
I found the piston bore was out-of-round just below the adjacent dowel. When I looked at the pump body I found that the dowel didn't have the usual slip-fit into the pump body. Dunno if my pump body is one-of-a-kind flawed or not but I did note that the corresponding recess at the engine case was a little bit deeper. You can see in one of the pics that the dowel sticks up higher than the other two. If the recess was cut much deeper it would be into the plunger area.
I have a vague memory of an assembly problem there, 30 years ago, and figure that's when the thing got roughed up.
What I did to avoid trouble this time was to pre-assemble that particular dowel into the engine case, not the pump body. My leak stopper piston seems to be working well these days, whooopee-do.
How's your engine paint holding up, did you bake it?
Engine paint is doing very well, thank you. I haven't yet abused it with a power wash as I'm a fair weather rider only and no top end oil leaks to mess it up. Yes, I baked it in the oven one Sunday afternoon when nobody else was home.