Need not pump it more than 2 times to the floor at the most, otherwise it will flood the crap out of it. The carb has pumps front and rear and yes does have a choke and yes the acc pumps are putting out good solid streams and yes the bowls are full to where they should be. Mind you I have been fighting this for 10 years and the procedure has boiled down to what I have come up with by putting fresh fuel down the barrels and it does not take a whole lot. It will start and run for a few seconds on the new fuel, then possibly die, then I put a little more down the barrels, start again and I am alive. After about a minute of keeping the R's up a little, it settles down to about 8-900 and idles fabulously. I really believe it has to do with the ethanol. Thanks for your response!
Also, the electric pump is 160 gph and 12 psi. I let it run before starting about 5 seconds, till the fuel pressure gauge gets up to a steady 6.5 psi, which tells me that the bowls have filled and any air bubbles are out of the lines.
