BOLT-SPECIAL 2775066 - Caterpillar

A simple elastic "tool" and a convenient pre-assembled cylinder pack have enabled System Reefer Service, Inc. of Cypress, California, to cut diesel engine in-frame overhaul time from five days to one and half days.
System Reefer Service, Inc. of Cypress, CA has cut their frame overhaul time for 3406 Engines from five days to one and a half days by using Caterpillar's new Cylinder Pack Repair System. Company President Lewis F. Stokes reports these downtime savings have been verified 16 times over the past 18 months without loss of engine reliability or performance.The company has verified this savings 16 times over the past 18 months without loss of engine reliability and performance according to company management.
"We're getting as high as 400,000 miles on our in-frame overhauls, " advises Lewis F. Stokes, President of the 30-year-old cross-country produce hauling organization. "We aim for an 800,000 mile life and often get it. We used to trade our trucks every three years but now we hold on to them for four. Our miles per gallon is up 10%, partly because we're watching overall operations better. Mileage certainly hasn't suffered from our engine overhaul efficiency. "
System Reefer Service employs two key components to steamline the rebuilding of its Caterpillar 3406 Engines. The first is a unique patented cylinder pack removal tool, supplied by Caterpillar. This tool looks like an oversize drum sanding cylinder. By tightening a nut at the top of the tool, the rubber sides expand outward. When tightened in the cylinder liner of a Caterpillar Diesel Engine, the tool can be used to safely ease the complete liner, piston and rod assembly upward and out of the block.
Caterpillar's patented Cylinder Pack Removal Tool allows the cylinder liner, piston, rings and connecting rod assembly to be removed as a unit. This greatly reduces the time and number of special tools required to replace these parts.The second component is S.R.S.'s system is the "Preassembled Cylinder Pack " program now offered by Caterpillar Engine Dealers. Caterpillar's Remanufactured Cylinder pack consists of a cylinder liner, piston, rings, wrist pin and connecting rod, all assembled and ready to install in the block.
System Reefer Service buys the Caterpillar Cylinder Packs needed to overhaul a complete engine, exchanging the old components across the counter as their mechanics pick up the Remanufactured packs.
A Caterpillar exclusive! Caterpillar's patented Remanufactured Cylinder Packs consist of cylinder liner, piston, rings, pin, retainers and connecting rod, preassembled and ready for installation as a unit. The cylinder packs are backed the same as new parts warranty."Fastest time we ever turned a truck around with this tool and the cylinder packs was a day and a half from down to back on the road, " confides Stokes. "That was with two mechanics and included going to the Caterpillar Dealer, 15 miles away, to exchange the components.
"The time savings amounted to at least three days. Since our trucks average 1,000 miles a day, the dollar a mile rule-of-thumb operating cost would yield us a minimum of $3,000