Need some help, 1989 running rough and wants to die

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So I'm driving home today and I'm a half mile from home when my 62 kept wanting to die every time i would give it gas. It died a few times but I got it back started and made it a few hundred yards each time. I finally got it limped home and in the garage. The tail lights are on and will not turn off. That's never happened before and never had any issues with it running bad. I took the battery cable loose so the lights would turn off. She has a little over 330,000 miles and never had a lot of trouble out of it. It was running rough last year and after trial and error I put a set of aftermarket injectors in and shes ran great ever since. It was making a heck of a chirping sound at idle the last 3 times I've driven it, sounds like the power steering pump but can't say that for sure. Anyways, I don't even know where to start. It's like it's starved for fuel but it did it all of a sudden, no symptoms before today.

Thanks for any help
 
Where you start is the Factory Service Manual. Here's a free download, thanks to @Cruiser Cult

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The manual walks you through the diagnostics for every system. Takes the guesswork out of things.
 
Bad alt might cause this, but those tail lights… and it was the tail lights, not the brakes???
 
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