[xtreme80]

This sounds more like a "too much" fuel issue rather than not enough. Before you spend 30 bucks on a fuel pump, try spending around that on a carb rebuild kit. It's a simple thing to do, and more than likely, you have fuel seeping through the gaskets. You probably have a mechanical fuel pump right? I don't even think it would be worth it to spend money on a new one.

When my carb decided to start leaking, it did it all at once. It was running fine, I shut it off, and literally the next time I fired it (an hour later or so) it started leaking. We rebuilt it, and everything that was causing the flooding that I rebuilt worked great and still did even when I replaced it with an Edelbrock.

I can't stress enough about how good it would be to just rebuild your carb. If anything, just replace the gaskets, float, and accelerater pump spring and sleeve. You also said you had a rich condition, so that would generally mean too much fuel.