I recently bought this car with 182,000 miles on it. After a short
period of time, it seemed to start losing a little power. Actually it
seemed as if it was losing torque. It would wind out more before
shifting and would seem to shift more between drive and overdrive.

Then I noticed it idling a little rough.

Next thing that happened was that it starting cutting out the other day
when I was driving over a mountain. It was at about a half-tank. I
turned around and headed back down the mountain, and it actually
completely stalled out once, and I had to crank on it quite a bit to
get it started. I topped off the tank, and it then got me where I was
going.

The next morning I drove it about 30 miles to a friends house and when
I went to crank it, it just wouldn't run. It was running so rough, it
was undriveable.

I suspected the filter. I pulled the filter and outer pump assembly,
and in trying to pull the filter off I damaged the hose coming out of
the filter. I replaced the hose all the way to the regulator.

I don't have any way of knowing what the pressure is coming out fo the
pump, but it's really under pressure, because it really lets go when I
disconnect the fuel line from the regulator.

I've got nothing coming out of the regulator. I unhooked it from the
rail and nothing. I find that a bit strange as everything I've read on
this group suggests that when the regulator goes bad it let's too much
pressure through, not that it shuts off.

I'm also a bit confused about that whole 1/2 tank thing, as that would
suggest a bad low-pressure pump in the tank.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Taylor