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Originally Posted by 68bird400HO
It is just unreal that in the late 60s we had the technology to mass produce these pumps with high reliability and reasonably long life. Now we can't. We can debate the ethanol issue but we also have superior materials, neoprene, etc that are resistant to the crap gas. Also the new pump failures are in a short time so can't be the gas.
I need a 3 line pump so at this point am either going Robb Mc or seeing if I can get this old holley working. I am not seeing any other 3 liners out there. Not going to drop big money for old nos for a chance it might be good. Reliability and piece of mind is the most important.
Is the Robb Mc website the only place to get their pumps?
Are there other 3 line aftermarket pumps I am missing?
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Delco did mass produce these pumps for many years, and I think you could still get a GM part back in the 90's. But, like so many manufacturers today, they went overseas because it was cheaper to produce aftermarket parts. As a result, we see a lot of crap today. Cliff R is right, much of this stuff is made with inferior materials with poor tolerances that are not followed like they once were when made in this country. We see this a lot in the PerTronix ignition parts that have an unbelievable failure rate. That subject has been discussed here in detail and Cliff has many horror stories about these units too. Sad but true today in aftermarket products which at one time were as good if not better than factory parts!!