Fuel pumps are very similar to the engine in that they require coolant to keep themselves from overheating and self-destructing. However, for a fuel pump, the coolant is the supply of gas that is flowing through it. If you ran your car out of gas and tried to crank it for awhile, there is a good chance that damage has occured to one or both pumps.

First off, check the fuses (driver's side left foot area). When a pumps starts trying to push air rather than liquid, it's RPMs skyrocket and it starts drawing a lot of current. Hopefully the fuse blew before the pump did.

If the in-tank prepump has finally given up the ghost, try filling the gas tank to the full mark and restarting. If the car will start under these conditions, it is almost certainly a bad prepump. If the car still does not start, then I would start testing output pressure at the fuel rail (on top of the fuel injectors) using the homemade tester as shown in a past post (the location of the digital picture escapes me at the moment). If you don't want to bother with making a line tester, I would seriously consider swapping your main pump with a scrap-yard-special and see if that solves the problem. Also, be sure to verify proper voltage at each of the pumps with a multimeter, and check for bad/broken ground connections.

God bless,
Fitz Fitzgerald.
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'87 Blue 245, NA 229K