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The purpose of us rebuilding engines is CAT has designed these engines in a way to be rebuilt to reduce costs for the customer. That way the customer doesn’t have to buy an engine every time there’s an issue with the engine. It is beneficial for the customer to rebuild an engine. Some rebuilds are a third the cost of an engine and the lifetime of them is comparable to a new engine as well. We like to get a full life cycle out of our rebuilds. and it’s comparable to the lifecycle of a new engine once it’s been rebuilt and gone through all the proper rebuild processes.

The engine dyno is what we use to test any engine that comes to the shop after the repair or rebuild process. We use the dyno to run all of the engines that we rebuild or repair through all the tests that Caterpillar wants us to do as far as testing for any performance issues, mechanical issues, any kind of leaks. and also just to make sure that the engine performs to the spec that it is meant to perform at.

There’s quality control processes throughout the shop in the different areas. You have multiple people looking at the same part to make sure that things are good. And then we usually do one final check over before it ships to make sure there’s nothing that was forgotten or left off before it goes out. Tom’s is good about making sure we have any of the resources we need to make sure that the quality of our rebuilds matches the quality that’s expected of us.

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CAD components are built to be rebuilt. It allows us to put them back to that factory spec and lower the cost of buying a new machine or new component.

The benefits of a centralized CRC is quality control, maintaining contamination and the rebuild process, keeping everything clean, and then specialization in the components themselves.

To maintain quality, we have two Lehman in place. Anytime there’s someone in teardown, there’s a Lehman back there. Same thing in the rebuild area or even in the test bench.

This is our new test bench. We got it a little over a year ago. The old one was all analog. This one’s completely digital. We can get printouts of the data we collect as we test. And we can also now, what we couldn’t do in the past, is add a load. We can add a load to the components as we test them to imitate what they would see in the machine.

From the flywheel back, we work on transmissions, torque converters, final drives, differentials, the entire axles, steering clutches.

When a component comes in, it could be anywhere from a general repair, as in tearing down to that point, or it could be going all the way through the component, checking everything out, making sure everything’s fine, then putting it back together and getting it back to the customer.

Efficiency is important because a lot of times customers’ machines may be down, so we try to focus on getting the components in and out as fast as we can.

The technicians that work here do our best to work together and take pride in what we do to get the best components out to our customers.