Capital Equipment News March 2015

METRIC AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF IPD PARTS for Caterpillar ® C15 engines for mining, industrial applications

Metric Automotive Engineering is South Afri- ca’s most comprehensively equipped heavy diesel engine and component re-manufac- turers. Established as a family business in 1969, the company has a strong ethos of in- vesting in both quality equipment and expert personnel. This attitude towards customer service and constant product innovation has sustained the company since its inception. Metric Automotive Engineering can refur- bish large diesel engine components and offers services such as cylinder head re- manufacture, cylinder block line boring, mill- ing, honing and boring, camshaft grinding, crankshaft grinding, engine assembly and dynamometer testing. Subsidiary Reef Fuel Injection Services offers Bosch-approved fuel injection services. IPD PARTS FOR C15 INDUSTRIAL APPLI- CATIONS PIC 01: A Cat C15 engine for in- dustrial applications. Cylinder kits and other components from IPD are now available from Metric Automotive Engineering. IPD PARTS FOR C15 INDUSTRIAL APPLICA- TIONS PIC 02: Metric Automotive Engineering represents IPD in the local market, a leading aftermarket provider of engine components for heavy-duty diesel and natural gas pow- ered engines based in the United States. b

M etric Automotive Engineering has announced the availability of IPD parts for Caterpillar ® C15 engines for mining and industrial applications. These include cylinder kits and components such as a new IPDSteel ® friction welded piston design (patent pending), which features an integral cooling oil reservoir formed in the crown. Benefits include improved crown strength and flex resistance, particularly at the seal- ing ring area; superior protection against excessive oil consumption, operating tem- peratures and combustion blow-by; and an improved design compared to one-piece piston designs with two-piece oil dam in- serts.

tive IPDStyle Crevice Seal Liner for superi- or performance. The crevice seal is a wide rectangular shape seal placed into a special, tapered liner groove, which provides a wider contact surface deeper into the engine block for improved sealing, and a wedge effect when the liner is installed for securing the liner firmly, thus minimising liner movement. Operations director Andrew Yorke explains that Metric Automotive Engineering rep- resents IPD in the local market, a leading af- termarket provider of engine components for heavy-duty diesel and natural gas powered engines based in the United States. “IPD has been synonymous with quality, innova- tion and service since 1955. Its Caterpillar replacement parts are manufactured in a Lloyds accredited ISO 9001:2000 quality controlled environment.”

These kits are available with a standard OE style liner, and also with IPD’s innova-

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