I have run Holley electric pumps all my life since the mid 70's and never had a major problem other then pumps that were more then 10 years old. I had the red pump on my car for 7 years and have the black pump on it now with no trouble. I did have a red pump that sat for 5 years in a garage and it rusted up but that did not surprise me. Oh the red pump on my sons Dart we replaced 2 years ago when we thought it was acting up and losing pressure at times. But it had been on the Dart since 1997 so that was about 15 years on that pump. I have not seen any go bad so fast as you said yours did. Ron