JW51, I will do some looking for the fuel pump test. Cape? Small world isn’t it!
OTTO, my filter is the NAPA plastic aftermarket one. Seems strange for a mechanical pump only pumping sporadically and not activated by the cam lobe. Did you send yours to Then and Now to rebuild? I tried calling them, got a message they are short handed and to call back or send an email. How much and what is the turnaround on a rebuild?
You might be wise to proactively rebuild a pump with good parts, rather than depend on a new one with a high chance of failure….but you have to basically ignore whatever is going on inside your clear filter.
Your current pump might very well be working fine. If it’s running fine, that’s one piece of evidence. Further confirmation would come from testing pressure and volume.
I got myself all spun up about the same weirdness inside my clear filter a few years back. I did receive some explanations, which didn’t make much sense to me. But I finally learned to ignore it as long as the engine was happy.
