Rough idle, hard starts, bogging under throttle? In Southwest Florida, the fuel system is the first suspect. We provide mobile marine injector cleaning and complete fuel system service for outboard, inboard, and diesel engines at your dock across Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, and SWFL. Most fuel problems are cured in one visit, without replacing a single injector.
Ethanol gasoline and Florida heat are a brutal combination. E10 fuel absorbs moisture from our humid air, then separates in the tank. The fuel degrades and varnishes in weeks, not months. And SWFL boats sit: between trips, through summer heat, through hurricane holds. Every idle week, that degrading fuel is coating your injectors, gumming your VST or fuel rail, and growing sludge in the tank bottom.
The symptoms arrive gradually, so owners adapt without noticing. Idle gets lumpy. Cold starts take longer. The top end feels soft. Fuel burn creeps up. Then one day a clogged injector leans out a cylinder, and a simple cleaning problem has become an engine repair.
Our fuel system service attacks the whole chain, not just one component:
Every manufacturer's fuel system concentrates its problems in a different place, and knowing where saves you money.
ultrasonic and on-engine cleaning for gas outboard and inboard injectors, restoring spray pattern, idle quality, and throttle response
diesel injectors live a harder life. We service and test them, and coordinate rebuilds for common marine diesel platforms
the vapor separator tank is where outboard fuel problems concentrate. We clean the tanks, screens, and high-pressure filters that owners never see
primary and secondary filter and water separator replacement, plus upgrading boats that left the factory under-filtered for Florida conditions
when the tank itself has water, sludge, or separated ethanol, cleaning injectors alone treats the symptom. We assess tank condition, and for boats needing full polishing or tank cleaning in Fort Myers we manage the process end to end, then recommission the engine side afterward
water detection and visual analysis before we recommend anything
A big share of the "engine problems" we get called for in Fort Myers turn out to be fuel problems wearing a disguise. After 15+ years working Gulf Coast boats, our lead technician Cody can usually predict the tank's condition from three questions: how old is the fuel, how long does the boat sit, and where is it stored. That pattern knowledge is why our fuel diagnoses tend to be fast and our fixes tend to hold.
Island Marine Repair is a fully mobile operation. The injector service, the filtration work, and the fuel testing all happen at your dock or driveway. We are not here to sell you injectors. More often than not, we are saving you from buying them. Learn more about how we work on our About Us page.
The review pattern we are proudest of: customers who came expecting an expensive repair and left with a cleaned fuel system and a working boat. Fuel work rewards honesty. A cleaning that fixes the problem earns a customer for life. An unnecessary injector set earns a refund demand. Fort Myers boaters have noticed which way we operate.
VST cleanouts on lift-kept Yamahas, ethanol-separation recoveries in Cape Coral, diesel filtration upgrades on Punta Gorda trawlers. Documented fuel system work below.
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Canal boats that sit through the summer are ethanol-separation central, and Cape Coral is where we see the pattern most. We recover them at the dock, from tank assessment through injector flow verification, anywhere across the canal system.
Request Cape Coral dispatchDockside fuel diagnostics and VST service along the river's north side, where lift-kept boats, long idle periods and no-wake commutes make fuel system work a constant, predictable need we schedule for weekly.
Request North Fort Myers dispatchFuel system service for high-hour offshore outboards, where a lean cylinder at wide-open throttle forty miles out is not a risk any owner should be running. Pre-season fuel checks are the cheapest insurance in the fleet.
Request Naples dispatchDiesel filtration and injector service for the Charlotte Harbor cruising fleet, where clean fuel is the difference between a season on the water and a tow home. Tanks assessed honestly, filtration upgraded where Florida demands it.
Request Punta Gorda dispatchIsland fuel system calls, including the post-storage recommissioning that seasonal owners need most: stale fuel assessed, systems cleaned and engines proven before the first island season trip.
Request Sanibel dispatchFull fuel service dispatched to outer-island docks, because bad fuel does not care how beautiful the view is. Tank-to-injector service with everything needed carried aboard.
Request Captiva dispatchSt. James City and Bokeelia boats get complete dockside fuel service without hauling across Matlacha Pass. Hard-fished island outboards earn their injector cleanings honestly, and we keep them on schedule.
Request Pine Island dispatchFuel system cleaning and filtration for the Estero River and bay-access fleet, where the idle-speed river commute is precisely the duty cycle that gums injectors on otherwise healthy engines.
Request Estero dispatchInjector and fuel service along the Imperial River and Bonita's gulf-access canals, with special attention to seasonal boats whose fuel sat through the hot months while their owners were north.
Request Bonita Springs dispatchLemon Bay boaters get the same complete fuel system service, mobile, without the drive to Lee County: injectors, filtration, tank assessment and honest answers at your own dock.
Request Englewood dispatchOne dockside fuel system visit answers it, and most are completed the same day they start.
