I dropped $400 on a bad dredge pump impeller last month

I swapped to a cheaper aftermarket impeller from some online shop after my OEM one cracked. It threw off the balance so bad the whole pump vibrated like crazy and I had to pull it after just 6 hours. Anyone else get burned by off-brand parts or is there a decent budget option out there?

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vera5143mo ago

Buddy of mine tried the same thing with a hydraulic filter... saved like thirty bucks and three hours later his whole system sounded like a bag of rocks. Cost him way more to fix the damage than the OEM part would have been. He said the off-brand stuff sometimes just isn't machined to the same tolerances and it throws everything off. Kinda makes you wonder how they get away with selling that junk.

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drew553mo ago

Wouldn't that just be bad luck though, plenty of guys run aftermarket parts for years with zero issues lol?

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