Why is this happening?!!Please help.

but auto zone sells nice little electric pumps for around 35 bucks.

Is that one of those Mr. Gasket fuel pumps you're talking about? Those things are total crap and have about a 12 hour life span.

The skidloader here at the shop ate 9 of those Mr. Gasket electric pumps, I think the last one survived a week (about 8 - 10 hours of total run time) after that we ditched the electric pump and ran a vacuum powered fuel pump on the engine instead.