Thanks for your responses.
bartamos: What I mean by 'buttoned back up' is we put everything back to where it was before we started working on it. It started and ran normally while moving it from the front street to the back lane. The pump was not removed. I believe the tank is original.
miraclepieco: there is a short section (5 inches maybe?) of rubber hose in the line from the tank to the pump. It looks like there may have been a filter there at one point (I'm only saying that because I installed a filter in almost the exact place on my '47 pickup)
I'm going to get some new fuel hose, replace all the rubber sections, add a filter, and try the above tests.
