Hello carlton
Check your O rings on the tube going from tank to filter housing and from filter housing to injection pump.
If any of them are old, weak or bad; you will be sucking air instead of fuel.
Your description is text book for bad O rings or a micro crack in the fuel pick up line.
Have a great day.

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