Category: Blog – Diesel Engine News & Updates

As we briefly mentioned in Part II of this blog series “The Importance of Systemizing Your Diesel Repair Shop – Part II”, system inputs, outputs, and costs comprise the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that need to be identified, analyzed and measured in order to determine the effectiveness of the systems that run your diesel repair shop.

As the owner or manager of a diesel repair shop, do you continually struggle with getting the optimal efficiency out of your work flow? Do the same problems and errors keep reoccurring? Has your revenue flat-lined? Is your business not growing like you expected?

The rate of new technicians coming into the industry is lower than the rate of technicians retiring. For many repair shops and fleets, this shortage is already a harsh reality.

It’s difficult to find skilled employees. Then once you’ve interviewed and hired them, it’s a challenge to keep them. And even if you’re able to keep them, maybe some aren’t producing the way you want. You should determine why this is happening. It could be any of a number of reasons such as they don’t have the right tools, job responsibilities or work hours changed, they don’t get along with a direct supervisor or co-worker, feel there’s no opportunity to advance, they’re bored, or maybe they don’t feel valued. You won’t know unless you ask.

Have you taken your diesel engine apart and noticed damage to your piston skirts? You might be wondering what could cause this kind of failure. We’re taking you through possible failure modes to help prevent this damage from occurring on your pistons again.

Improper engine care and issues it can cause to pistons.

Did you know that when the valves fail on your diesel engine, it could be due to a failure in a specific area of the valve? Different types of failure cause damage in different areas of the valve, so identifying where the failure occurred can help you diagnose exactly what’s  going on in your engine.