The pump puts out a constant pressure no matter how clogged the filter gets, no way is the filter being clogged killing a pump. Now if your fuel filter is plugged your pump probably ate the same stuff and that is what killed it.

As for running the tank empty killing the pump, also hogwash, it has a resovoir of fuel in the pump housing to cool it. Also it is hogwash that it starts picking up junk off the bottom of the tank when you run it low, the pump ALWAYS sucks from the bottom of the tank, if it was picking up sediment it would also do it when full. I always run mine till the light is on and never have had a personal fuel pump go bad.

I also agree about the airtex being a huge pile of garbage, we had to refuse to use one because we were replacing ALL of them under warranty. We have not had any delphi fuel pimps come back yet.