Motor Mission Blog

Here’s some pics of a couple jobs we picked up while out on a road trip. On the back of the flatbed is a Caterpillar 777G modular radiator that has lived in a corrosive environment [...]

Here’s some before & after pics of a Caterpillar standby generator radiator we did a rod & repair to. The inside of this radiator was heavily rusted & corroded as many genset radiators are from [...]

Here’s some pics of a Caterpillar 793C mining haul truck radiator we're finishing up rebuilding. All sixty of the individual folded radiator cores, or sections, have each received a rod and repair as well as [...]

Here’s some pics of an industrial bolt-on radiator we did up for a garbage truck. The hole in the radiator core is called a crankhole, or crankbox, for the PTO (power take-off) driveshaft to pass [...]

Here’s some pics of a JCB 8042 Forklift radiator we overhauled. The radiator is an all metal unit with a copper & brass core, brass inlet (top) & outlet (bottom) tanks & steel side braces. [...]

Here’s some pics of a cuprobrazed aftercooler for a 3412 Caterpillar engine. These aftercoolers typically come in for cleaning & pressure testing during engine rebuilds. We machine our own test plugs for pressure testing these [...]

Here’s some before, during & after pics of some Caterpillar number 2W-5540 folded radiator cores we're rebuilding. This set is out of a 793C haul truck radiator which takes sixty of these 2W5540 cores. Each [...]