FYI - your 3.0 ALSO has plastic vanes if it's original - I definitely recommend that you have it replaced at an indy with the Stewart water pump. Another thread here just mentioned his water pump went at 80K. As I said, some last longer, a few shorter, but most fall into that 60-80k range.

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