I've been adding a water soluble oil which makes a fine rust inhibitor and
water pump lubricant to all cars and vans I work on now for almost 20 years.
I think this helps  too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Allan Streib
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Water pump?

One thing about water pumps in general is they will last longer if you
use the proper coolant and change it every two years.  I'm not saying
this will make the VW pump last forever, but it will help.

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL

John Meeks <vanagon@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> On Jan 8, 2008 2:05 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
wrote:
>
>> I have not seen a subaru water pump fail yet.  I'm sure they must,
>> but they're good for 100K easily as far as I know, even more.
>> Scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>>
>
> FWIW my wife's 96 Subi Outback has never had the water pump
> replaced.  230K miles.
>