Company Announcement - Metric 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 sealing ring area; superior protection against excessive oil consumption, operating temperatures and combustion blow-by; and an improved design compared to one-piece piston designs with two-piece oil dam inserts.

These kits are available with a standard OE style liner, and also with IPD’s innovative IPDStyle Crevice Seal Liner for superior 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 represents IPD in the local market, a leading aftermarket provider of engine components for heavy-duty diesel and natural gas powered engines based in the United States. “IPD has been synonymous with quality, innovation and service since 1955. Its Caterpillar replacement parts are manufactured in a Lloyds accredited ISO 9001:2000 quality controlled environment.”

Metric Automotive Engineering is South Africa’s most comprehensively equipped heavy diesel engine and component re-manufacturers. Established as a family business in 1969, the company has a strong ethos of investing 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 refurbish large diesel engine components and offers services such as cylinder head remanufacture, cylinder block line boring, milling, honing and boring, camshaft grinding, crankshaft grinding, engine assembly and dynamometer testing. Subsidiary Reef Fuel Injection Services offers Bosch-approved fuel injection services.