Well hopefully my supplier will sell me new. I will ask.

Yup. Plastic. It kinda looks like metal in the pic. I just had to go
downstairs and double check! "scrape scratch". Yep. It's plastic!

Here's a pic (likely the original as the engine has only 96K km's):

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/plasticimpeller

Neil.

On Feb 19, 2008 8:42 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Who gets rebuilt water pumps for Vanagons or Jettas? Thoe worst I have
> seen is the GMP brand. Stamped metal impeller that just does not move
> enough water at idle. I have never seen a plastic or composit impellar for
> a VW application.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Allan Streib
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:50 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Water Pump Impeller Damage
>
> neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> writes:
>
> > Got some advice on brand names for replacement and was advised to
> > get one with a metal impeller as the stock plastic one self
> > destructs. I pulled it and sure enough, the plastic was
> > deteriorating! Not sure why, but maybe something to do with a
> > chemical reaction?
>
> By the way, if you get a "rebuilt" water pump then be sure to check
> the impeller before you install it.  I bought one for a Jetta years
> back and the impeller had visible, fairly significant cavitation
> pitting right out of the box.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>

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