Date: 19 May 2006 15:50:30 GMT From: "sweller" <swellernospamch.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: C900 1987 - Waterpump
Dave Hinz wrote: > > Personally, I'd go for one from a breakers but IME pattern parts have > > always been fine. > > For a water pump, I'd rather go aftermarket than used. But I'd rather > go OEM than aftermarket. I always go for what I can afford... Which tends to be OEM from a scrap yard. > > Although I can't comment on a waterpump for a Saab the pattern ones > > I've had for other cars, a Triumph Herald and a Morris Minor (which > > dates it), have all been fine. > > That would be the Saab "B" engine based on the Triumph, with the > waterpump driven off a gear on the layshaft. Last used in '79 or '80. > I think the OP has an "H" engine so it's an entirely different thing, > altogether. It will be H on an '87 900 but I was just relating the last time I bought a waterpump; which coincidentally it was probably around 1987 when I had my last Herald and '89 for the last pump I bought for a Morris. -- Simon
