Fuel Pressure

I've got an update. Today I removed the hand primer pump and this is what I found:

Seems it was plugged with what looks like plastic wrap, kind of like the stuff the new filters are wrapped in:


I haven't started it up yet to see if any difference in fuel pressure but it sure can't be good having that stuff in there. I pray that none of it got past there and into the injectors.

Also when I had everything apart I was poking around the fuel pressure gauge sender and noticed it has 4 fittings. One 90° that's connected to the line to the firewall, two middle fittings that are not hollow and, one more o-ringed fitting that threads into the filter head. Could these two center fittings that are not hollow be what they call a "snubber", or is this a stock set up:


Here is what I replaced the hand primer pump with. In the 11 years I've owned the truck I never needed to use the hand pump so I'll keep it wrapped in a rag in the side box just in case:

 

Now I'm going to have to look down the fuel nozzle every time I fuel haha

 

Found the fuel pressure problem. It wasn't really a problem after all. I took those two "diffusers" out of the fuel pressure gauge line and just ran the line to the fitting on the filter head and pressure jumped instantly to 65, then 80-85 at high idle.

Of the 2 diffusers one was too restrictive with it on it's own (wouldn't let the pressure over 60) and the other seemed not restrictive enough but, still allowed the same pressure as none at all so I left that one in line.

Looking for a new run so I can feel if there is any performance difference by getting rid of all that plastic wrap that was plugging up the hand pump valves.