re: Optimax - need diagnosis

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Now for the first issue in your post, how old are the hoses on your boat? Are the ethanol approved as well as the bulb? That shite will eat an old hose. Read on the hoses themselves and if not change that out. I had the inner walls collapsing on some older hoses and little chunks of hose was fouling up the injectors. All of the hoses under the cowling in that yr model are ethanol approved but check from the motor to tank and that bulb.

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Here's my problem with this direction. It's a 2006. Previous owner had no issues according to him. I had none 'till now, and have used ethanol free gas.

To go one step further, my previous engine was a '95. I never changed hoses, and never used ethanol free gas. I never used stabil. I also never had any fuel related problems.