Re: Reusing a old water pump impeller

[20mercman]

quote bigrichsoldoutboard:

I have a friend that flips over the old impellers and reuses them, I feel you go through the effort removing the lower unit why take a chance on the old impeller breaking and getting stuck someplace in the outboard and causing real trouble. Whats your opinion

I just purchased a couple of KG-7 pumps and two KE-7 pumps from you on e-bay. (The KE-7 were a few months ago, the KG over the weekend)

I have had marginal luck with NOS pumps also like others here have stated. I had a very hard to find pump for a 64 Mercury 200 that was very hard, I also picked up a NOS pump off of marinengine.com for a KE-7 that broke just attempting to install it. I did get a refund on that one. That was my last experience with NOS pumps. I do have a NOS pump for a neutral clutch fleetwin that is very soft and pliable.

Steve