Truck Parts and Service | Heavy Duty Trucking, Aftermarket, Service Info
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21 Service Bay W W W . T R U C K P A R T S A N D S E R V I C E . C O M M a y 2 0 1 5 | T R U C K P A R T S & S E R V I C E Fitzgerald Glider Kits use Eaton remanufactured transmissions (shown in the foreground) in assembly of its popular gliders. rebuilt, and Foxx says most reman com- ponents available from OEs today are tested against the same quality standards as their new aftermarket counterparts. "We are able to replicate [our OE] process for our remanufacturing," he says. "We know all of the quality checks that must be done and have standards built in place to ensure that quality is built into our remanufactured products." "We don't have two sets of standards," adds David E. Kish, director of quality and reliability, remanufacturing at Al- lison Transmission. "We know the specs for a brand new Allison transmission and we make sure our [reman product] is go- ing to perform up that standard." Those quality checks start with cores. Foxx says any core that returns to the Bendix assembly line is treated the same as unused raw material. The same is true at Meritor, says Tim Bauer, the company's director of remanufacturing. Bauer says all cores returned to Meritor immediately undergo a visual inspection and several performance tests. Passing cores are then cleaned and returned to their original state, where they are again tested for shape and strength before offi cially entering the remanufacturing line. "We spend a lot of time looking at cores when they come back to us," he says. "Even the cores that fail, we drill down and try to determine why it failed, and if there's something we can do to ensure that doesn't happen again to any others." The assembly strategies found in the OE arena offer another selling point for remanufactured components. The reman components available in the market today only fall into said category because a core is used in place of more expensive raw materials, says Bauer. The friction material and kitting assembly components that accompany a remanufactured brake shoe, for example, are all new. Bauer adds that those new com- ponents only further enhance the