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Message: <blockquote data-quote="INW-Iron-Steel" data-source="post: 21603" data-attributes="member: 11733">I really appreciate the input!The pump is a 'Hella' brand. So not OE. At the time, the GM genuine for my RCSB was not available/discontinued. I did some research and they seem to be a pretty well respected German company and OE supplier. I am really wishy-washy on this one, that's why I am asking for others thoughts. I would usually just do the work while I have the tank down, but this OE pump has been a workhorse. I thought it was dead about 8 years ago when it started need 2 cycles of the key to prime and start the truck without prolonged cranking (that healed itself). And then I thought it was dead again about 4 years ago when the truck randomly died towing my boat up a hill on the way to the lake. That hasn't happened again, but I attribute that to low fuel and heat. To give context to the situation, we are going to be in the midwest for about 6 more months, and then we will be heading back to WA (about 1500 miles). With this in mind, I am half tempted to throw the new pump in and keep the truck close to home-base for a while just in case it fails. On the other hand, I would hate for it to abruptly fail after 6 months in the middle of MT somewhere. I guess that could happen with the 265K mile pump though too. Oh yeah...I learned that the hard way on the 93 suburban when the better half killed the OE pump. It died at the gas pump on 4th of July, after filling up the 42 gallon tank... Now she knows why I fill everything up when it hits 1/4 tank, or sooner.</blockquote>