OK here is a preliminary report.....I got everything back together tonight and didn't have any left over parts, so.....got out a fire extinguisher just in case the new fuel lines were to leak or who knows what else - I like my garage the way it is.
Anyway, being that ALL the lines were bone dry from putting on the red head fuel pump, I dumped gas down the plug holes and gave it full choke. It started after the 4th pull and stayed lit.
This is not a true test by any means, because I had to dump the fuel down there, but in my experience, even when I would dump fuel down there, it wouldn't stay lit and I would have to pull some more to get it fired up again.
So it is going to sit overnight tonight, then tomorrow I will try it with just the choke and see how many pulls it takes.
Not only did I replace the fuel pump with a red head fuel pump, but also put on a new vacuum line to the fuel pump, a new filter in the tank pick-up line, cleaned the carbs (which had one pilot jet plugged solid and the other two partially plugged, cleaned the power valves at which point a discovered two of the three were pulled through. So anyone or all of these could be contributing factors as to why it has started hard for me every morning in the last 2 years that I have owned it. But if it will start with just the choke in a reasonable number of pulls tomorrow morning, then I would be inclined to say the red head fuel pump was a major contributing factor.
I will post again tomorrow afternoon.
My thanks to all you guys that have helped me accomplish the above. I have learned a lot about the sled, saved some money, and know that it was done how it was supposed to be done.