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Originally Posted by nan-ber
after having worked lately on an etec 150 06 , both i and the owner would no longer bother with them, now thats just our opinion, but there s just too much variables attached, we re miles from a brp agent and when you cant replace an injector with out a plug in , it really is a joke, we need to be able too fix engines ourselfs and thats not possible with the new 2 strokes and they give a lot of trouble, if you do buy an etec keep the fuel clinicly clean, a sniff of water and your in trouble,, however been a 2 stroke buff i love the idea, the power the lightness and the sound while on muffs is brilliant, its just a pity they dont perform as they should, sorry just my 2 pence worth
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You're right about clean fuel, but that applies to any fuel injected engine, 2 or 4 stroke. The old days of stripping down carby engines, cleaning the bowl out & blowing the jets through are gone. You can't put water & sh1t through an injector, whatever badge it's got on it. There are plenty of products in the form of additives & filters available to reduce water in fuel, chuck in a dose of good housekeeping & you shouldn't have problems. Maintenance wise, modern cars are no different, but we don't subject them to the same conditions that we expect our boat engines to operate in. Water in fuel is not an engine problem, it's a boat problem.
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