duralast water pumps-anyone? ???

Don't mix up the Duralast pumps with that Valucraft (AKA Valu-CRAP) garbage. Pretty much everything with the Duralast name is lifetime warranty stuff (excluding ignition stuff and brake rotors); if it's a one-year warranty, it's the ValuCRAP. DO NOT bother with the 1-year garbage - I don't know how many of those damned things I was embarrassed to try to even sell, as a lot of them were bad right when you pulled them out of the box. They use cheap gaskets, crappy bearings/seals, and they're reman'ed poop; the Duralast water pumps are generally 100% new and I had very few returns of those when I worked at Autozone.

Pony up the extra cash and do it right the first time. You do NOT wanna screw with swapping water pumps more than once on a 302, trust me.

swapping a water pump on a 302 in a mustang isn't nearly as bad as swapping a water pump on a 318 in a 94 grand cherokee That sucked!

Anyway, Rains:

I recently swapped my water pump and do recall the $35 Duralast as having a lifetime warranty. The cheaper $12-13 one was the one w/ the 1-year warranty. I got the $35 Duralast one and got home to find out the one I had on there was replaced a year ago (forgot to check old receipt before I left) and was still good (gasket leak only), so I returned the one I bought and put my used Duralast back on. I'd go Duralast (obviously).

any parts store you get what you pay for!

I had a Duralast on one of my S10's and it never leaked.