'70 C10 with issues

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Picked this up the other night from a friend of a friend.

Completely original drivetrain wise. Runs beautifully, sounds great.

Unloaded it off the trailer and was driving it over to my shop when it just died. Noticed under the hood that the fusibile link junction on the passenger side fender was not getting any power. I have no idea what happened because it started fine all night and up to 5 mins prior to it turning off. No sight of the fuse and other end of the link.

Anyway. Pulled it back to the house and noticed someone had installed rather poorly a low volume electric fuel pump and hooked it up the the fusibile link junction on the passenger side fender. Also, not sure how that's possible because it would have been constant hot. But it wasn't prior to this incident. Pulled off the block off plate, and noticed the pushrod was gone. So I had to overnight a mechanical fuel pump and pushrod for it.

I'm still baffled why someone would swap in a likely more expensive electric pump on a 2b 307. Could the cam lobe be bad? I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Just thought I would see if anyone has ever seen this setup before.