<VV> Fuel Pump Going Bad??

[John Beck]

Did you check the filter sock inside the gas tank? --J.B.

Anil Mittal wrote:
> 
> The car again ran great for about a week. The next time
> this happined I noticed that I was on empty, thinking I ran out of
> gas I put a few gallons of gas in the car and had no luck getting it
> running. I could pump the accelerator pedal 20 times and it would run
> for a few seconds and die, no flodding and no raw gas smell which was
> really weird. I left the car on the side of the road and came back
> the next morning. With a little cranking the car started up and I
> drove it the 2 miles home. This was about a week ago and I have not
> touched the car since. Would this indicate to me a bad fuel pump
> which does not want to pump when it gets hot? The car does not have
> the typical vapor lock symptoms since it dies while it is driving and
> I did not have it "warm soak" just before. The carbs are fairly new
> Grant rebuilds less than a year old. I also do not have a raw gas
> smell in the oil so I don't beleve that the pump is leaking into the
> oil. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for any help.