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Old 11-25-2015 | 06:24 PM
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http://www.ebay.com/sch/Porsche-928-...1475176/i.html

I wouldnt trust them , but am i paranoid? some for $60 !! some even say Geba, laso ,etc. are they real?

I already bought mine, and have no regrets, but what is the deal here?
Old 11-25-2015 | 06:35 PM
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Only one way to find out..a guinea pig OB that is a non-interference engine. Those pumps are as Chinese as Peking Duck.
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The bearings are made from hardened chewing gum.
Old 11-25-2015 | 07:03 PM
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From my favorite listing
"High Qualiry New "
Old 11-25-2015 | 07:05 PM
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About all you can say with any certainty is they LOOK like 928 water pumps..... which is all that is needed to sell them.
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Aren't these the ones with a hardened impeller that can eat a hole in the aluminum block?
Old 11-25-2015 | 08:12 PM
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Some of the full price units come with metal impellers. What is on the ones ordered from Porsche, are they OEM spec or Laso or are those one in the same?

And Mark, you just get here or what?

;-)
Old 11-25-2015 | 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Bjbpe
Aren't these the ones with a hardened impeller that can eat a hole in the aluminum block?
But only if the bearing fails.

At less than $50 I'm tempted to check one out. I could make it a disposable with each engine rebuild like spark plugs and belts. As much as I hope, the engine comes out most years. A real man pulls the engine, anyways.
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A real man pulls the engine, anyways.
Hahaha....you need to make that a signature line.
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Why are we talking about these things ?
We know what they are 'not'.
Old 11-25-2015 | 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by SMTCapeCod
Some of the full price units come with metal impellers. What is on the ones ordered from Porsche, are they OEM spec or Laso or are those one in the same?

And Mark, you just get here or what?

;-)
there has to be a few legit ones on ebay, right? what about that $500 GTS pump?
Old 11-26-2015 | 03:08 AM
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Mark,

They are so cheap more for economic reasons, exchange rate changes, money markets in Asia and all that.

Indeed I was speaking to an Oriental expert on this very matter recently and he was trying to explain all this to me. After a monologue of a few minutes I responded "Fluctuations". To which he curtly replied "Fluctu Europeans"!
Old 11-26-2015 | 03:58 AM
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Originally Posted by FredR
After a monologue of a few minutes I responded "Fluctuations". To which he curtly replied "Fluctu Europeans"!
Now that's funny, right there. I don't care who you are.
Old 11-26-2015 | 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by FredR
... After a monologue of a few minutes I responded "Fluctuations". To which he curtly replied "Fluctu Europeans"!
That's good Fred . .
Old 11-26-2015 | 11:33 AM
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Listing says 54 Sold??


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