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Originally Posted by Capt Fiero  I have used the spray many a time. The nice thing about it, is that it never gets hard. So when it is time to remove the pump again, you just undo all the bolts and the pump will pop off. It is not a replacement for a gasket, you just spray it on both sides of the gasket before you put the gasket onto the pump. It soaks into the gasket and makes it much more pliable. (sp) The catch is that you need to use a quality gasket like the blue Felpro. The cheap junk cardboard based gaskets just get weak and blow out eventually. Using the cheap gasket that came with the pump was my mistake in the first place. I should have thrown it out and used a new Felpro right from the beginning. |
Thanks, Capt Fiero. Very nice pictures, BTW.
I noticed as soon as one replaces an original water pupm on a 4.9 one just keeps putting new ones... Probably people do not pay much attention to the quality and to the proper installation of the gasket. The OEM waterpump is about $60 at rockauto.com. I do not know wheter it comes with an OEM gasket.