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Best price I’ve seen for one. I paid $130 four years ago.
Best price I’ve seen for one. I paid $130 four years ago.
Mopar Water Pump - $81 on Amazon
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Best price I’ve seen at Rock Auto too, but they want $19 minimum to ship it though (at least that’s what it is to AZ).
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Did you see the Amazon reviews? Seems many pumps arrive with broken impellers and dented housings due to not being packaged properly. Sounds like the pumps are in a thin box with no internal padding, just as you would find on a parts counter shelf, and NOT intended to be shipped.
Were those reviews for water pumps from World Parts Direct? The discounted listing is not a Prime item, which means it’s being drop shipped.
My spare Mopar radiator from WPD arrived in excellent condition.
Also, the Mopar water pump I got via prime last year arrived just fine. I returned it because I couldn’t stomach paying $250 when the Gates was around $50 and arrived a day earlier. Amazon shows my purchase last year under the same listing when mine shipped from Amazon (Prime), so the reviews are mixed in together.
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Mine arrived today. Gasket was a little bent, but not badly.
Looked inside the water pump and pulled out two strips of metal, thin and bent, almost like pencil shavings. Can't see where they came off of anything inside. Impeller turns freely. Any ideas? Smaller one looks like it could have come from the threading process.
Looked inside the water pump and pulled out two strips of metal, thin and bent, almost like pencil shavings. Can't see where they came off of anything inside. Impeller turns freely. Any ideas? Smaller one looks like it could have come from the threading process.
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I got one to keep as a spare, but I'll check mine when it arrives. Thanks for heads up.
I'll use a Fel-Pro gasket when I eventually do the install.
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Looks like metal from the machining process. The spiral metal is what you’d expect to see coming off a lathe. Dang, you’d think that would be removed in a cleaning process
Ace Ventura delivered mine a couple days ago. Gasket folded up as well. Box beat to hell, but pump unscathed.
Spiral chips are common when machining aluminum…not something I’d want my customer to see. :/
If the gasket looks compromised, I don’t think it’s foolish to use a Fel-Pro.
I use fel-pro gaskets when installing the throttle body, thermostat housing, water pump, etc.
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This gives me an idea for a cartoon where a box is lost in transit for years, makes friends along the way, and has to be saved by a tape doctor a time or two.
KennethS
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Do you know who makes the OEM gaskets?
This is the answer the internet had to that question:
MOPAR gaskets are primarily made by Fel-Pro and Detroit Muscle Technologies.
Crazy the price drop. I think it was $200-$250 from the dealership last year and they now have them at $118 from the mopar dealer down the street. That’s 68382492AA but all the same. Wander if the supplier changed resulting in the poor Quality Control. Maybe I’ll grab one up to have on the shelf.
Yea, it was around $250 on Amazon last year.
I didn't notice the part number change until you listed it. SSTJ received part no. 68382492AA, which is also the version currently listed on the Mopar retail sites (for around $70 plus shipping).
Even the MSRP has dropped:
Showed up yesterday. Box wasn't to beat up. Gasket is flat and no machining chips that I can see. Another part to add to the pile of parts.
Mine showed up yesterday as well. Box was beat up. I haven’t opened it yet to do an inspection.
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