Water pump OEM FORD or GMB

I replaced both mine and my dad's with GMB. Mechanic recommend it too. So far so good.

I have their water pump on my Rx7, it's been A-Okay for over 3 years.

Excellent time to learn to do it yourself and buy a $65 water pump and timing belt kit. Dirty cheap for the miata. Just find a kit with a GMB water pump and a name brand belt.

I've used GMB some 10+ years ago. They were made in Japan and came with a lifetime warranty.

Melling and Aisin are both premium WPs. Airtex is pretty good. GMB is ok.

I had the same issue with the same Ford motor 3.7 in my Mazda Cx9, it is internal water pump

I had one go bad on my Ford flex... The pump is inside the timing chain cover. Most places have to drop the engine, I got lucky and the place I went the guy was able to do it without removing the engine.

The 3.5 engine is garage with this design. Had an Edge from new and out 150,000 miles on it in 13 years. I was always dreading this failure and luckily dodged it before selling it.

Awful design by Ford to put the water pump inside the engine. I almost bought one of these used a few years ago, but backed out after reading about 3-4k jobs to replace a water pump at 180-100k miles.

Pretty sure this is the motor that needs the engine dropped to do waterpump and timing components. Bad bad design