When you do get a pump, buy the entire pump (front and back hemisphere) (like a GRAF brand). If this engine has been moving grit, the rear half of the water pump will be worn more open and not be able to move fluid efficiently.
Have had bad luck with graf metal impeller pumps, multiple failures over 2 different cars.
Looks fine to me. I typically install Graf water pumps which are a similar stamped metal design and works just fine.
Well, all of these seals are not created equal in my experience. I have had a bad experience with some seal kits that had combustion chamber seals that were really hard so they didn't stretch evenly over the injector or compress properly with the proper tools. Luckily I was able to source some of the correct ones from a tech friend the same day, so I was able to get my car going. You really need to make sure that you have the right ones, as you have to destroy the old ones to remove them, and if the new ones aren't right, you are screwed. I personally won't recommend anything other than factory parts, as too many times I have tried something else, like Graf aluminum water pumps (two failures-100%, within six months) and gotten burned.
I have over 200k on the Graf I installed at 120k miles.
graf has failed on me twice prematurely
I just had to deal with a Graf pump failing at 6000 miles on my CRUA. Everything is low quality trash now.
I have a Graf and I haven't had any problems.
I have 27K miles on a Graf with no complaints.
I installed the aluminum pump (Graf) on the wife's Tiguan and it has worked great since. Have put 40K miles on the metal pump and no issues.
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