What kind if car, pup in the tank o an old car ?
Cars with the pump in the tank have a screen on them to prevent this, but c ars with the camshaft driven engine mounted fuel pumps did not, usually. In the elcetric pump cars, you would probably find the screen in the tank clo ggred, (collapsed) and of course that burns up the pump because the gas flo wing porvides cooling. It requires very sophistticatd equipent to find out, you blow through the screen and if any air refects, like you can hear or f eel it, that is did not pass freely through the screen, it is defective. We kll, not really, it is clogged. They are too cheap to clean, wspecially whe n a fuel ump which can cost up to $500 is involved. Don't evenTHINK about t he big ass trucks with direct injection, that pump probaby costs more than a house, even though it is not worth it. The one up on the engine is worth it, but they are going to rake you over the coals foro the electric onbe in the tank because the mecahnical one mounted on the camshaft is not going t o f*ck up enough to make them any good money.