changed water pump GASKET this weekend

[Coachmenguy]

well i spent the whopping 9 dollars and me and my buddy replaced my badly leaking water pump gasket this weekend, no thanks to GM!!! come on GM, 44,000 miles???????? gaskets shouldnt even be talked about at 44,000 . Oh well it wasnt too bad of a job, probabaly took us around 2 hours or so takin our time. so everything else is dry for now...........whats next, the rear main at 50,000?????????

[99Silver6.0]

well i spent the whopping 9 dollars and me and my buddy replaced my badly leaking water pump gasket this weekend, no thanks to GM!!! come on GM, 44,000 miles???????? gaskets shouldnt even be talked about at 44,000 .  Oh well it wasnt too bad of a job, probabaly took us around 2 hours or so takin our time.  so everything else is dry for now...........whats next, the rear main at 50,000?????????

 

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Front main. But its easy to change!!!!!!!

 

Rear is a big fat hore to change.

[TEE]

No...it'll be brakes at 50K and head gaskets at 80K and a tranny at 90K

[Coachmenguy]

ohhhh, no, breaks for me were at 35,000 all the way around!

[asilverblazer]

Brakes were 145K for me all the way around.

[TEE]

Brakes were 145K for me all the way around. 

 

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Your just SUPER LUCKY...check their records.

[Norseman]

Brakes were 145K for me all the way around. 

 

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Your just SUPER LUCKY...check their records.

 

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I didn't have to change mine until 100k miles. I guess I'm just super lucky as well.

[flatlander]

well i spent the whopping 9 dollars and me and my buddy replaced my badly leaking water pump gasket this weekend, no thanks to GM!!! come on GM, 44,000 miles???????? gaskets shouldnt even be talked about at 44,000 .  Oh well it wasnt too bad of a job, probabaly took us around 2 hours or so takin our time.  so everything else is dry for now...........whats next, the rear main at 50,000?????????

 

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Had a leaking water pump gasket on my 03 4.8 at about 50,000 miles and as I recall Chevy replaced it with a different type gasket. Seems to me that the new type gasket was metal of some kind but I did not do the work so am not real sure. The disc brakes were still good at 85,000 when I traded it and except for the water pump gasket nothing went wrong with the pickup. I drove a lot on dirt and gravel roads so the rear brake discs did score but the pads did not seem to wear excessively.