Wow, you SSEi guys got some mileage out of your pumps! My series II SE pump went out around 44,000 miles.

When mine broke,the pump "locked up" the pump shaft/pulley angled about 10-15 degrees due to the engine still running, causing the belt to slip off. The ensuing loss of power steering & alternator caught me off guard. Luckily I was only 3 blocks from home. Felt like an old NASCAR stocker without power steering!

Upon removing the water pump (more involved as you all well know, Series 1) I found that the front cover that the water pump bolts to, has a gouge from the impeller when the shaft angled. Needless to say, I didn't want to fix that at this time, it'* a more major project to replace the front cover (I might have tried JB Weld!), so I just installed another rebuilt pump. The end result is that the Bonnie runs a little hotter on the temp gage, probally from coolant bypassing thru the groove cut by the impeller.

131,000 on the original in my 99 and still functioning like a champ!

as far as know mine is orinigal stil going strong have 166 on the clock

They make things more durable because they had a feeling about how we might drive them.

my 96 is still going strong @ 83k but my 90 was eating pumps due to the shorter a/c bypass belt I was running.
I've since fixed that when it threw the belt and broke the crank sensor.
I expext the 90 pump to last 60 or 70 k now.