Searching for My Dad's 1979 Chevy Suburban

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TheHoundsman

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So, thank you all for your advice and guidance throughout this process. When I returned yesterday, all the parts I had ordered had already arrived. As recommended, I ordered and replaced the Ignition Coil, Ignition Module, Distributor Cap, and Rotor. I messed up the Radio Capacitor during the replacement, so I bought and replaced that as well. I put it all back together and took it for a test drive. It was a perfect run for the first 15 to 20 minutes, which seemed better than ever. I was pulling into the store, and it stalled again. I got it going, and when I pulled onto the highway, it stalled again. I popped the clutch and got it going again, and this happened two more times. Long story short, I got it home, but something is clearly wrong. As you all may remember, I have a new fuel pump, but I didn’t install it since we didn’t think that would be the issue. So I can replace that, and I think I might. (Trying to carpet bomb this thing.) Other than that I truly am at a loss. Any additional advice would be greatly appriciated. I am thinking at this point I might just need to put an EFI system in. Thanks as always. I’ll attach some pics of the work I did today.
 

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Hold off the parts cannon for now id say.

So what are the symptoms? It gets to temp then stalls out randomly? Is it starving for fuel? That would be the first thing i check.
 

TheHoundsman

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Hold off the parts cannon for now id say.

So what are the symptoms? It gets to temp then stalls out randomly? Is it starving for fuel? That would be the first thing i check.
So it definitely gets to temp. I was driving it for 15 to 20 minutes today before the first stall. It then staled 3 more time in the next 5 minutes. So does that sound like fuel pump. I just don’t know
 

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