Recent content by daholub

Anyone know where I can find some used/salvage parts for the 6530? I had a major failure of one of the front end bearings and it broke the bearing cover and chewed up the spindle pretty good. Branson dealer wants $3500 for all the parts new.

I did a leak test this weekend and got all 4 cylinders with leaks. 1 & 4 more than the other 2. All of the leaks seemed to be coming out of the exhaust ports. Could it be the exhaust valves not seating correctly?

Did a combustion leak test and it came up negative twice. Used a scope, but couldn't see that well. All 4 chambers looked alike though. I pulled the exhaust manifold and ran it. No smoke from any cylinder until hitting 2100 rpm. It started running rough at that point with white smoke coming...

I bought a 2006 Branson 6530R about 7 months ago. It worked fine for about 2 months but then it started putting out a lot of white smoke over 2,000 RPM. Some days I can get the revs up to 2,600, but with the white smoke starting at about 2,000. Other days, it will sputter and smoke and not...