I can't find any leaks or anywhere that air would be getting in through the inlet of the pump, so before moving on down to the fav, I'm wondering if my bend from the tank to the pump may be too much of an angle. Here's a pic.
Also when I manually activate the pump and watch the flow meter, it shows full flow, half flow, quarter flow and bounces around till the pump runs for about 15 seconds it holds full bars. I take it for a drive and it shows full bars and with every pull it drops bars till I have nothing again.