hard to say...
We used to sell "Airtex" water and fuel pumps at the stores I worked at, in addition to the "A-1 Cardone" rebuilts..both brands had very few defectives or failures--if a garage was doing a water pump in a vehicle with a timimg belt and was leery of using a rebuilt pump,I'd send them the brand new
Airtex" one instead of the cheaper rebuilts--we sold "Blue Chip" wayer pumps too,they were a 50/50 shot of getting a good one,but were popular due to the cheap price...cant say how good ANY brand is now!--that was 10 yeaes ago,many of those companies might not even exist today!(or if they do,they are probably making them in china or mexico,like everyone else..
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Even if you go right to a GM dealer and get a genuine AC Delco one,chances are(good) its not american made!....
I put an Autozone 13.99 rebuilt water pump on my vans 307 I swapped in,because I feared the original pump (73!) would start leaking the day after I put the motor in,and its a bitch to install with the motor IN the van,so I bought the rebuilt pump...
I took one ride to my brothers house 82 miles away and back,a few local trips to go shopping,etc--one day at a fast food joint I smelled antifreeze burning,and I prayed it wasn't MY van--but it WAS!
--leaking like a faucet out of the "weep hole" !..I was pissed!--now I had to do another water pump swap with the motor IN,just what I had planned to avoid!--they gave me another one free(lifetime warranty!)--and it hasn't leaked yet--but it hasn't moved since dec 2003 either!
---hard to say if ANY brand of ANY parts is a "good" one anymore unfortunately...its all about price and profit now,not quality...
