I'd probably use it as a target, I like shooting crap like lawn mowers and fridges. Checking out the physical damage is really fun for me.
Any value in a used not good OEM water pump?
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maybe worth it as a keepsake or souvenir if you like to play with old car parts
No
There's only a core charge for rebuilt parts, and reman water pumps aren't common
No
There's only a core charge for rebuilt parts, and reman water pumps aren't common
I think we must be related. My grandma saved those plastic or styrofoam trays that frozen meat was packed on; after cooking the meat she washed off the tray and dried it and saved it for eventual re-use someday. "Someday" never came and when we all helped her move into a newer, smaller place there were thousands of them carefully saved and sorted in bags. Plastic butter containers, cottage cheese containers, etc.... She saved them all.
There are some rebuild kits still made for components like alternators and brake calipers, but most have been discontinued because of the cost. The are some components where the rebuild kits you would want to use because of the quality, can be more expensive than just buying one.The old rebuilding days are gone. I remember NAPA and others having rebuild kits for alternators, starters, water pumps even brake wheel cylinders and power steering boxes etc. IDK if rebuild kits are even available now.
I had to help clean out my grandfathers shop when he passed away. They wanted me to throw away everything there, not bother with keeping anything. I wound up taking about 1500 new old stock Vacuum tubes he had, I remembered that an audiophile at work bitching about the price of used tube, had unused tubes.
It turned out to be a good decision because I had 10 new tubes, that the used value was $1100. I wound up selling everything as a lot to a serious buyer that wanted them for a huge chunk of change.
Sometimes hoarders have good stuff I guess!
If you have a secondary residence like a vacation home or ranch property, store it there on the off chance you find yourself needing a replacement water pump while there on a weekend or holiday when nowhere is open to get one.
Sure you’d have to replace it again with a new one once back in civilization, but at least it would allow driving back to civilization to do it again instead of staying another day or two and trying to do the job (without the proper tools) once a new one could finally be sourced.
When my grandma passed we were cleaning out her garage and found an old picnic basket. Inside were prepackaged plastic forks, spoons and napkins. No idea where she got them since they almost never went out to eat.
Let's extrapolate.
Whenever my wife and I drive past a self-storage building under construction we just look at each other.
A handy garden store folded at the intersection of Rt.3 and Bloomfield.....it's a self-storage monolith now.
Two homes, perilously close to Rt.208 were raised and a self-storage building is going up now. Hmmm...that one is OKer.
Whenever my wife and I drive past a self-storage building under construction we just look at each other.
A handy garden store folded at the intersection of Rt.3 and Bloomfield.....it's a self-storage monolith now.
Two homes, perilously close to Rt.208 were raised and a self-storage building is going up now. Hmmm...that one is OKer.
No they aren't. BMW only sold remanufactured BMW-branded water pumps for my old E34 M60, which were about twice the price of a new OEM Saleri pump on the aftermarket. Go figure.
My dad saved everything also.worn out take pads went into the box the new ones came in and got a date written on it . Same with fuel pumps etc. The weirdest was the burned out light bulbs.Absolutely not..
My grandfather would probably have done the same thing.. He gave me a bundle of pencils as a high school graduation gift, he'd been been hoarding them for more than 50 years! Literally had some pencils he hoarded from WWII in England!
Miss that cheap bastard.
He saved those too.
I still have the WP from my ol Blazer. It’s a door stop to one of the utility doors on my pole barn. Works great.
If you don’t mind mowing around it for the next 5-10 years, get one of those raw metal skids. Take it in for scrap when it gets full.
If you don’t mind mowing around it for the next 5-10 years, get one of those raw metal skids. Take it in for scrap when it gets full.
Don't ever throw away used American (or British) made vacuum tubes! Heres some numbers: 6L6, 2A-3, 6 A-3, 6550, EL-34. 6BQ-5, 12Ax7, 12AT7, 7189, #45. #50, #80, (off the top of my head ) Many of these are used for audio. Also television sweep tubes are of value to many people.