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Old 08-19-2011, 06:43 PM
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Hi David

Glad to see you finally present your car to the community. Can you tell by the records whether they were doing 3k oil changes? Any indication if synthetic was used? If yes to both then in my opinion, based on what I have seen, you should be able to easily get past 200k miles before you change out the vacuum pump as a preventive measure. I ran mine out to 250k miles before I swapped it out and that car had been on synthetic or was on a 3k mile oil change interval. Whenever I go to synthetic I run them out to 7500 miles. I did not see any indications of wear when I changed out the vacuum pump but I figured it was cheap insurnace. Anyway, when you go in there to do it you may find that it is time to change the serpentine belt tensioner too. While you are in there changing the vacuum pump would be a good time to do the water pump. Typically, I don't change them out until they start leaking.
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