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Originally Posted by Big Orange 78
fuel pump does look pretty old and beaten up. Do you think i am losing pressure at the pump and that is the cause of the intermitten loss of power?
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Good possibility. I learned in troubleshooting engine problems is look at simple and cheap first.
If cap, rotor, wires and plugs are all fine next step is fuel, by substituting a clean fuel filter for a suspect and the problem persists check the pump. If the fuel pump has a leak in the diaphragm you can still start it but you'll get that chug under load, happened to me once with a '76 Monte Carlo. It behaved just as you described, new fuel pump fixed it especially when it died on me completely and left me stranded.