Fuel pumps

[carsandkites at gmail.com (Kervin)]

  On Friday, my car was very hard to start after work.  After I got it
running a little, it had a almost continuous sputter.  I borrowed
another car and let it sit until today.  I did find one vacuum hose
that had a hole in it, but even after fixing that, it ran poorly.  I
fulled the tank ($45!) before driving home.  I think the fuel pressure
is the issue.  During the 10 mile drive home, the car would sometimes
have a sudden drop in power.  I could not get the car to idle at 750
like usual.  I had to put some "pre-load" on the throttle cable so the
car could idle.  The lowest the car do handle was 1500, so I used the
clip to have it at 1750.  On road intersection turns, the engine would
die.  I'm going to look things over as closely as I can in few
minutes.  Anyone have any ideas?

Kervin