Well its not a common problem in the US, heck a lot of the old exposed bearing pumps have hundreds of thousands of miles on them. I am trying to think and I cannot think of a new pump failure off the top of my head. I know of 617's that have failed, but no 602/3/6's.

I know those engines are copy's of Mercedes, but how exact are they? Did they use all the same materials? I guess thats the queston, if one wanted to order a crate engine from Mercedes it would be north of $10k US, so did the Koreans cut corners to keep costs down?

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