Anyone running with a metal impeller water pump?

[petee_c]

Finally got some nice spring weather and been re-acquainting myself with my 01s.

Im going to put it up on the lift soon and do a bunch of maintenance of on it.

The current water pump is at least 7 yrs old and has between 40 and 80K miles on it.

A few years ago, I was planning on doing the water pump and never got around to it. I bought a metal impeller Pierburg brand water pump at the time.

It's been sitting on the shelf in my garage since. Now there is Internet hysteria (?!) about catastrophic failures of metal impeller pumps.

I am trying to figure out if I should put this one in, or forkout money for a different plastic impeller water pump.

Peter

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