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Re: Water pump impeller damage
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 9/26/2019

This is another example of the overuse of plastics. Plastics get brittle and disintegrate with heat/cold cycles and age. I have seen many split impellers, line fittings and radiator tanks just crumble.

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