A friend has a Deuce coupe, built almost thirty years ago. It has an OEM style in-tank electric pump feeding a stock fuel injected SBF 302. The pump has started to fail, working fine on a cold start, and even for an hour or so of highway driving, but then it dies like the key is shut off. Allowed to cool off it does fine again, but for a lesser time to get hot, and it stops again. We've isolated it to the pump, but to change it means dropping the tank, and to drop the tank means disassembling the whole back end of the car - he did not build in ease of maintenance features on the tank mount.

The question - can he mount a good external electric pump low on the frame rail, one that has plenty of suction head, and pull through the OEM pump in the tank, at least for a while? Seems to me that I've seen it done before, but we don't want to mess up a good pump for no good reason. It's not a performance beast, just a stock Mustang engine, AOD cruiser.