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If your motor has the original Ford (MotorCraft)
carb it has a screw in fuel filter. Follow your fuel line on the driver's side (it is metal) up to the carb. The metal line will transition to a short rubber hose. The screw in filter attaches to the rubber line. The small screen filter easily clogs up. Your description sounds exactly like mine before I replaced the carb.

The filter should not be too hard to find. If you can not find a replacement used compressed air to clean out enough to get some fuel flow. If you tank is very low you are sucking up a lot of crap which will continue to clog the filter.

As Garth said you need to clean out the tank. I highly recommend replacing all of your fuel lines ASAP. Many of us (including myself) take them for granted yours might still be the original lines.

If you decide to stay with the OEM fuel filter, I would be glad to buy as many as you want. The last time I bought them I think they were less than $10 a piece with new clamps and rubber hose.

Good Luck, and congrats on your new “Beast” !

Jeff