Tracing Down Fuel Pressure, Hose Imploding... Options

[7TPorsh]

Car has running ok then slowly developed fuel shortage issue. Idles but doesn't drive.

I bought an inline fuel gauge and hooked it up just before the tee to the carbs. 1.5 psi barely. If I let it build it will get to 3 and i start the car.

I relocated the pump up front about 6 months ago...new Carter next to the spare tire. All new hoses; the high rate injection hoses. Along with a new stainless tube down the tunnel. Again worked great for a little while.

Anyways, I pulled up the tank to inspect and see that the first couple of inches of hose coming out of the tank looks pinched or squeezed about halfway. WTF.

So I cut that piece off and reconnected it like new. There is slack in there from the previous install.

Worked better and i could drive; then it started sputtering again. Pulled up the tank to see the same thing.

I am pretty sure the hose isn't binding. It's the larger size hoe that gets stepped down into 5/16? and into the fuel filter...which may also be the culprit.

Is it possible (easily) to bend the output pipe on the tank to make it farther from the wall?

Has anyone seen hose act like this? I paid like $8/foot. It seems pretty thick and has a thread going through the rubber.

thx Gary

[7TPorsh]

I put a new sock in when i did the fuel pump; old one was clean too. Probably bad batch of hose.

So odd.

Does anyone make a step down hose adapter that is a fuel filter too?

Know two birds with one shot.