How to kill and remove Diesel Bug is a short video showing how we dealt with the diesel bug on our Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i.
After losing power multiple times on our passage from Tilos to Kos, we stripped down the fuel system to find bacteria growing in the tank, filters & traps.The only cure for such a bug is an additive that is put directly into the tank and left for 24 hours to work.
Once dead the system must be thoroughly cleaned, including traps, filters, fuel lines & diesel tank. The only part we didn’t do were the fuel lines, they will be replaced before we set sail in 2018.
As we were only a few miles from our home port we also waited until we were safely back in the marina before removing the tank and cleaning that.
I am sure there are many sailors out there who have experienced this problem and have dealt with it in numerous different ways. We wanted to show the procedure we used on our Sun Odyssey 36i, which covers where to find all the relevant parts, including removing them and cleaning them.

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anyway run away from to us - well we're

going to yell over and repeat toss the

engine starts - dialers died - appoints

have not stopped him and then picked up

again and kept doing that all the way

here and we check the fuel filter next

to the engine and that's clean we've

seen that out wasn't which in there I

didn't realize there was a fuel trap a

water trap next to the tank which is

here it's a sea path it's got a big one

actually then to be honest it's

absolutely full rubbish water it looks

like there's a boogie marina and we've

come to the Chandler's and we've bought

some biodiesel fuel additive and

apparently it's really good stuff and

hundred mils of this will kill off the

book that we've got so if you note that

- the tank now mostly 24 hours before we

start the engine

oh you actually move wait for a couple

days anyway so

so this is the water trap drink because

obviously you get water and fuel this

new eco fuel is this is a tank pickup

and I just took it out and it's full of

gunk it was just rock solid so there's

obviously a bit of a bug in there and

it's clogged everything up got a bit of

pepper I like to clean the fuel filter

and those are the bits that have come

out it's quite a lot of crap really so

just keep cleaning in and make sure it

runs clear among that this is a field

filter that is attached to the engine so

it's the last filter that filters the

fuel before it actually goes in and

without this off before and cleaning it

out but now finding what we've found

think it's a good idea to do it again

so I want to take it off

so it'll filter when you leave a

difference but then again I suppose I do

get there to it yeah so I've been and

gotten even and that was well

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we've taken all the diesel out of the

tank we found couple of black bits at

the bottom but the rest seemed pretty

clear so here you've got the this one

borrowed and then all the connectors and

then the inlet and the outlet pipes in a

hurry so what's stopping it little clips

so I'm taking the tank out swill it out

with petrol it was pretty clean anyway

very very little bit of anything in it

the only sort of crap that came out was

that bit in the bottom of there

so this is the sender unit Pepsi need

the vine so this is the sender unit this

is fuel gauge tells you