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So, a few weeks ago after leaving it far too long between engine services and allowing my fuel tank to become far too empty I discovered I had diesel bug. This initially manifested itself when the engine just kind of chug-chugged and stopped while I was charging the batteries. After that it was hard to start, took longer and required more revs than normal but it did run. I pumped all the diesel and gunk out of my tank, gave it a swill around with fresh diesel and pumped that out before having a dose of Marine 16 and 150L of fresh diesel put in and changing both fuel filters. It ran fine for a couple of weeks and then on Tuesday it seemed to happen again, it stuttered to a stop. Like before it was difficult to restart but did start eventually, kept trying to die but provided I gave it enough revs when I heard that starting to happen it would run like normal again. I took off the primary fuel filter assuming that my diesel bug treatment had failed and expecting to find it all gunged up again, that's where things got weird, it was sparkly clean, looked brand new, clearly not blocked with diesel bug. So, I refitted the filter, bled the fuel lines like normal and the engine, so far, has started and run like normal since. Anybody got any idea what's going on here? Is it possible I didn't bleed the fuel lines properly after my diesel bug treatment and there were some bubbles that caused the problem? Is it possible that that would take a week or two to become a problem? Seems odd to me. Any other theories as to what could be doing on here?
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