You need to cobble together on of these bypass setups to help you diagnose
the problem:

                 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=349429

Very useful to help eliminate what's going on and rule in/out the fuel pump.

Steven
91 Westy

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:39 AM, TJ Hemrick <x53gunner@gmail.com> wrote:

> All, I was driving the kids to school today and my 87 GL started slowing
> down, no dash lights, no throttle response.  Just like being out of gas
> except no surging or sputtering.  Just to be safe, I put in 5 gallons, a
> shot of ether, crank it over, but it won't stay running.  contacts on fuel
> pump r clean also.  Anyone know of a component failure that would shut me
> down like this?  l'n thinking bad fuel pump as it ran on pure ether.
>