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You’re absolutely right. It ended up being the fuel pump. Replaced it a couple days ago and did the fuel filter at the same time for good measure. The pump that was in there wasn’t the OE Motorcraft one, looked to be an aftermarket one. Doesn’t surprise me as I hear they only last a year or two in a lot of cases.
Update: WOW. I jumped the inertia switch by unplugging the connector and inserting a thick paperclip between the input wire and output wire on the connector. I had a new fuse in at the time as well. Turned the key and it fired right up. About 10 seconds later the truck dies again and I smell smoke. I look over and the connector to the inertia switch is smoking. It’s now melted at the end so I don’t really have a choice but to bypass the switch now. I’m just concerned as to why that happened. It’s not my first time bypassing a switch, and from everything I’ve read online, people were jumping it with no issues.
Anyone have any ideas? If I had possibly let the paperclip touch the metal surrounding the switch, would that have caused it to spark? I feel like it would’ve disrupted the current to the pump and caused it to not run in that case.