10% Ethanol will not start……no fire??

Johnny Mac said

Just to be clear... you can turn your pump on, build pressure, then.....pump it 15 times, physically watch the acc pump squirter shoot fuel into the intake, and it still won't start?

Are your float levels full in this "no start" condition? How long are you letting the pump run?

If your acc pumps are shooting fuel when you pump it...it should start. I don't think they are functioning if you can't pump it and get it to start......
Does the carb have a choke? If you are content, then that's good, but seems more is going on.

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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.