Dead Mityvac, what should replace it?

I'm inclined to just buy one of the metal-bodied versions of the plastic Mityvac that just gave out on me, but are there any vacuum pumps out there that would be better? I don't ever use the thing for bleeding brakes or anything, just testing. I'd like something that won't get broken when it gets put with a timing light in a toolbox.

Not in a particular hurry, but my Honda has about a billion vacuum lines and I'm doing some troubleshooting that requires pulling a vacuum. My current one does what I need for this, but I can't use it for an accurate gauge, and it tends to leak down over about fifteen seconds or so.

I bought the plastic bodied one after the metal body one crapped out. Plastic one is so far lasting way longer.

just my .02

The one that's crapping out on me is a plastic one, for whatever that's worth.

I just bought the HF version for $20 today and it's mostly metal. Will probably be testing it this weekend

In reply to Grtechguy:

Let me know how that goes.

Anyone else? I need to pick one up this weekend. Honestly, the HF cheapie looks to be built better than a Mityvac. There's a store here in town that has that sort of stuff, so I might see if I can pick one up there. I'm an hour from HF

I have a Mity Vac and the Advance Auto metal version. The Mity Vac works better, it produces more vacuum with less effort.

For what it's worth, the answer was rebuild what I had.

Derick Freese wrote: For what it's worth, the answer was rebuild what I had.

Are there directions and a parts list somewhere? Mine leaks down too, always has and it drives me nuts.

Yeah, what's the rebuild process like on these? I got one of the more costly metal M-Vac's so it could be rebuilt later, and then eventually pulled fuel in it because I'm a moron, and now it's 100% worthless at pulling a vacuum.

They are just screwed together. Mine just needed one gasket, something I had laying around, and a good cleaning. I'm betting you can clean it out and it will work fine again. I sucked up carb cleaner in mine again today, yay.