Hey everyone, it's been a while! We finally got a carb, but the fuel line was fused to the old carb, so it took us another couple months to source the right line from Summit, then another couple months to get it installed. The engine fired right up and ran BEAUTIFULLY for about 30 seconds, then puttered and died. My neighbor thinks the fuel pump gave out right then, although he also mentioned the rust/clogging issues that people have mentioned here.
I don't have much time to spend tinkering with this thing, as I have a young daughter, a busy wife, and some sick family members, so my time is precious. Dropping the tank is really not an option. Given that, what would you all suggest would be my next steps to resolve this?
Option 1 is just to swap the fuel filter and see what happens.
Option 2 is to try and feed the filter from an external gas canister (run the supply lines from the pump into a container of clean gas) to isolate the pump and diagnose from there.
Options 3 is replace the lines, the filter, and possibly also the pump, all in one go, and see what happens.
Option 4 is to just take it to a shop and let them figure it out.
thoughts?