I done did fargged up

[chickenwing]

My truck has been acting real... mean lately. I had a 1/2" wood spacer below the carb. Knew it was suckin air and causing it to idle a bit rough. Figured I would get to it. In the mean time, I had been wanting to up grade my electric fuel pump. I went out and bought a Holley red and a nice cannister style filter and a holley pressure regulator. Installed everything and I couldnt get any fuel to my carb. Finally gave up on it and installed the old pump, worked fine.
Couple days later, I got a nice 1" phenolic spacer and all the gaskets fully expecting to fix my intake leak. Truck definatly ran better on acceleration but still missed horribly. Maybe even worse. Could find no more leaks. Went over my wires, cap and rotor. No bugs.
Finally I had it and took it to a shop. Figured maybe the !@#$% just wants another mans hands on her.

Shop called. Carb full of rust. Now know what happened. I had started to run out of gas on the freeway and went to my "oh crap" tank for a couple of miles to a gas station. Forgot about it and never changed the filter. Then put that darned holley pump in there with 15psi of pressure BEHIND the old filter. Pump immediately blew that crap into the carb. Worked fine with the old pump cause it was preset at like 5psi and could flow through the shot filter.

So now I gotta ask my truck for forgiveness... BTW, it seams crow taste like the bottom of a 30 year old gas tank.