wow Robert, i have heard all the talk about the gas, and i will go get 5 gallons of real gas, i will test the hard line etc. tommorrow and post my findings

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I have to disagree on the ethanol theory being the problem in this case, ALL of our station have ethanol in it & my car doesn't starve for gas at all, what it does do is after running a good 10-15 minutes around town is the pressure on my gauge will start flucuating (drifting) around, but then it'll return, is it the GAS, IDK, but even under these situations it'll run out fine under WOT through all gears.

I think his pump is either "sucking air" somewhere or theres a restriction, OR the pump rod is mushroomed because he mentioned he never took it out & looked (unless i missed something).

Another thing i thought of & it happened to me is, the short rubber hose that goes from the tank sending unit too the hardline was kinked, had another car that the hose was so soft the suction from the mech. pump was making it callapse. These are things to check. I'll bet anything "once" you find the problem its going to end up being something you over-looked & simple.

Its not rocket sience, you have a clear path for fluid to flow through, then you have a pump that sucks & pushes the fluid, pretty simple really.

Check the hard line & let us know what you find.

1 more thing, did you ever try running it without the gas cap on???

Pull the rod out already!

You stated you have a 3/8 rubber line to the carb, but do you have a 3/8 sender and 3/8 metal fuel line?

sorry, i meant to say, it did not look mushroomed, it looked fine, sorry for the confusion

okay, i think i am getting close, i have the tank out, everything looks fine, the gas nice and pretty color, the sending unit is fine, i had disconnected the line coming from the tank to test the fuel pump yesterday, i went to hook the hard line coming from the tank back to fuel pump to test the line at the tank, the gas was coming out a orange color, i have included a pic. of the gas that come out of the line from the hard line from the tank, it is orange, what does this mean?
rusted line from the tank?

i have redone all the fuel line, i have 5/16 line from the tank to fuel pump and from fuel pump to carb, i have a steel line from the fuel pump up to the fuel filter, then a small rubble line with the fuel connecting to the hard line on carb

i shined a light in the fuel pump hole and the rod seem to be fine and put my finger on it and it seem to fine

hey Jim, i am going to check this, i do see that the hard line from the tank stops on the frame rail and has rubber hose connected to the fuel pump and it still has the factory connector and not a clamp that i can tighten, this may be my problem, it may be heating up and allow the air to enter the line, i will check this, i am really confused about the orange gas
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the problem i am having is fuel coming into to the fuel filter, the fuel filter wld go empty, do you think the line on the carb wld cause this?

hey Joe, i did test the system with the fuel cap off and it still ran out of gas in the fuel filter, i think it is sucking air from of the rubber hoses too, i do think that i need to replace the hard line from the tank though? and i am going to replace the small rubber lines and make sure all have the clamps you can tighten up
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The orange gas is not good, its very possibly rust, At this point its very hard to really determine what could be going on, sounds like you most likely have more then 1 issue going on.