steve from staten island
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I need opinions on a quality replacement.
Yes and its a AC car 26" rad with 3 cores. I have no cooling issues. I did buy a Rock Auto pump. Its making a noise and before I reinstall the engine I want to change the pump. Thanks for the reply.Used a couple from RockAuto. Don’t recall the brand but both worked just fine with no issues. Just remember not getting the cheapest. I assume your working on a fairly stock setup?
Yea, good luck finding a genuine NOS water pump at a reasonable price.I gave up on aftermarket $hit. I bought a NOS for my '68 318 and all my problems disappeared. Not cheap and has some risk but I lubed the seal with some oil before installing to get it softened up and it works better and longer than anything I bought aftermarket.
Yea, good luck finding a genuine NOS water pump at a reasonable price.
If you don't care about the glitz and just want it to work Steve, just go pick one up from NAPA.
Nothing wrong with after market $hit these days. I'll bet Jim has even put Chinese crap on his cars and he doesn't even know it.
Can't avoid it these days.
Those of us that live in the real world accept it and drive our cars.
You actually found a part made in Japan? You're showing your age Jim.
Some people on here don't have more money than time, what an arrogant thing to say. If you have so much money why don't you build, buy or rent a proper shop to work on your cars in?
If you cant do a water pump on these old V8s in an hour or two and enjoy the pleasure of working on the car , especially on these old V8s, you picked the wrong hobby.
Hell, I have a Chinese water pump on my Ram 2500 with over 100,000 miles on it. Works like a charm.
GMB is made in Japan which is why I thought that may be better.... it was not.
I bought a pump thinking I was buying top notch (Miloden or Morroso.. can't remember), pulled it out of the name brand package and whataya know it was a GMB!! I trust nobody anymore but it's still working perfectly.GMB is made in Japan which is why I thought that may be better.... it was not.