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Originally Posted by Craig
I replaced the original engine with a used one at about 400k miles. The used engine died after another 150k miles so I installed a reman engine recently. Hopefully I'm good for a while now. I did have a vacuum pump disaster at about 300k miles, it did plenty of damage; now I replace them at any sign of noise.
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Re the vacuum pump (and my apologies to the OP for the temporary thread hijack!), what kind of noise do you listen for? And so I assume, in your opinion, it's not necessary to replace them purely on the basis of mileage?
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