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A “Rat Rod” is characterized by a custom build which is offbeat and unique in a whimsical way. The more odd the build the better. With this turbo diesel powered truck the engine is mounted right smack dab in the bed for an old school tough as nails look. Check out the video below for a better look at the mounted engine. ... read more »

Ford Motor Company has developed a breakthrough remanufacturing technique involving the repair of cylinder heads and engine blocks called Plasma Transferred Wire Arc Welding. The welding technique is an offshoot of plasma arc welding which has been revolutionary in automatically welding of large scale automotive parts. This technique was first invented in 2009 and is just now being implemented on a wide scale. ... read more »

Happy Happy New Year to you and your family from Capital Reman Exchange! ... read more »

The Clean Air Act of 1970 was essentially the first major environmental safety and regulatory law in the United States. The law was enforced by the newly created Environmental Protection Agency also created the same year. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the brainchild of increasing public concern in the 1950s and 1960s regarding the human impact on the environment. Specific incidents such as the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, the destruction of environmental preserves through the creation of the Federal Highway Interstate System and Rachel Carson’s whistleblowing ecological novel, Silent Spring brought the need for a regulatory agency to oversee environmental issues. For years congress could not come to a discernable solution that would appease both political parties. It was Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington State that broke the stalemate when he wrote Bill 1075 which evolved into the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. This was the first of many laws regarding clean air, water and wilderness protection. It was Richard Nixon in 1970 that created the EPA under the guise of having one agency that oversaw and enforced all environmental issues. ... read more »

The announcement was made by the head of Daimler AG’s commercial truck operation, as being part of a plan of increasing its engines output, and accordingly selling more trucks. The company has committed to a 370-million-dollar investment for these purposes, and for building more transmissions and axles as a package as well. Daimler has already boosted its Detroit activity to produce heavy-duty automatic transmissions, which have been “a runaway success,” Wolfgang Bernhard, head of Daimler’s global commercial truck operations, told Reuters today ahead of an appearance in Detroit. ... read more »

The diesel market continues to grow from year to year as the need for reliable light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles increases mostly in secondary and third world countries. As infrastructure improves across the world so does the need for dependable work trucks. J.D. Power and Associates predicts that diesel sales will more than triple in the next 10 year accounting for more than 10% of all vehicle sales up from 3.6% just 10 years ago in 2005. From the year 2000 to 2005 diesel registrations increased over 80% exceeding 550,000 vehicles. From 2005 to 2015 that number further increased another 67%. ... read more »

Mack Trucks has built its most expensive custom truck ever for Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of the Malaysian state of Johor to tow his equally extravagant speedboat. ... read more »

Is bigger necessarily better? In the case of engines… Absolutely! The largest engine in the world is quite the workhorse. Wartsila-Sulzer introduced the RTA96-C Turbocharged Two-Stroke diesel engine which was installed in the Emma Maersk container ship. Giant engines like these are used in large ships of all kinds. Ship lines like Maersk prefer a combination of a single engine and single propeller vs. multiple smaller engines and propWartsilla Crankshaftulsion systems. More engines equals more moving parts, problems for breakdowns and issues with both engines working in conjunction. The solution is one large engine. ... read more »

In the fall of 2014 our owners Brian Pfister and Brian Byrne set out to chart their own course. With a diverse business background including experiences with mergers and acquisitions in the financial and industrial markets they had attempted to strike a deal with the bank that was foreclosing on another remanufacturing business with a long history in Denver. It quickly became apparent to them the business in foreclosure was not worth pursuing for of the myriad of reasons and decided they would instead work to fill a void in the Denver market by creating Capital Reman Exchange. The Brians jumped into action and began to construct a business plan that would be focused on quality, timely production and fair pricing that would serve both local and national customers. Mr. Pfister and Mr. Byrne purchased some assets from the bank during the liquidation of the old company in Denver. In the past year of operations there have been great successes and some unexpected surprises. This is their story. ... read more »

Question from Hank in Cleveland: What's the Mack E-7 Engine insulation procedure for the cylinder sleeves and refitting the liner protrusion? Answer: Excellent question Hank. Three things to consider when looking at the insulation process for the Mack E-7 reman: ... read more »

Nearly everyone who operates, owns or manages heavy diesel transportation equipment knows the Federal Government instituted regulations in an attempt to reduce emissions, fuel consumption and bolster a positive impact on the environment, but how does remanufacturing of diesel engines and engine components fit into the equation? ... read more »

In the United States approximately 90% of all goods are shipped using diesel engines. This includes over the highway freight, marine and train transportation. Diesel tractor trailers alone consume approximately 20 billion gallons per year, and a fully loaded tractor trailer traditionally obtained approximately 5-7 miles per gallon. ... read more »

Capital Reman Exchange in Denver has recently acquired a massive inventory of camshafts, new parts, connecting rods, blocks and heads. Currently, Capital Reman has inventory of nearly 4,000 connecting rods, over 2,000 camshafts, many blocks, heads and new parts that include thermostats, gaskets, overhaul kits, pistons, injectors, turbos and much more. ... read more »

A major source of engine wear is the sideways force exerted on the piston through the connecting rod by the crankshaft, which typically wears the cylinder into an oval cross-section rather than circular, making it impossible for piston rings to correctly seal against the cylinder walls. Geometrically, it can be seen that longer connecting rods will reduce the amount of this sideways force, and therefore lead to longer engine life. However, for a given engine block, the sum of the length of the connecting rod plus the piston stroke is a fixed number, determined by the fixed distance between the crankshaft axis and the top of the cylinder block where the cylinder head fastens; thus, for a given cylinder block longer stroke, giving greater engine displacement and power, requires a shorter connecting rod (or a piston with smaller compression height), resulting in accelerated cylinder wear ... read more »