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I was driving to a local car show, when my car died two blocks away from my house. It felt like it ran out of gas, but my fuel gauge showed otherwise. I walk the two blocks back home and put a gas can in the trunk of my daily driver. I went back to the RT, poured the gas in the tank, but it would only run when I put fuel down the carb. I reached around down where the fuel hoses were at, and when I pulled on the hose supplying the fuel pump, half of the fuel pump came right off the car. Being only two blocks from home, I really didn’t wanna call for a tow truck. I went back home and got a 1 gallon, plastic, gas jug, and attached a fuel line to the air inlet of the jug. I hooked up the other end of the fuel hose to the gas filter. I had to blow into the spout of the gas jug to get gas into the carb. I had to do that two more times in order to get it all the way home. Has anyone ever seen a pump break like this?

That is a new one to me seeing it break there.
Lucky you were close to home.

Definetely an odd way to break, usually it's the rubber diaphragm giving way.

Pretty ingenious way to get it home that for sure.

I've seen it on one pump many years ago, but it wasn't the type of pump you have on your car. The one that I worked on fractured right at the pin that acts as a pivot point for the arm that drives the pump.

"Made in the USA" right on it. Sad.