Announcing Aftermarket CAT

As Syd's Eastside Auto Parts has extended its product offerings and customer base with the addition of a superior line of new IDP engineered aftermarket engine part products for Caterpillar diesel and natural gas engines, we are proud to announce that Aftermarket Cat is now online.

Aftermarket Cat is much more than a new website in the Syd's Eastside portfolio, it represents a brand dedicated to assisting CAT owners and mechanics by allowing them to save money on quality premium aftermarket IDP engineered CAT motor parts.

Aftermarket Cat represents our commitment to the IDP line of superior performance Caterpillar aftermarket engine components which offer no sacrifice to reliability.

Even though the website is young, we encourage you to visit. If you have any comments or critiques of the website, we would love to hear it. Or if you would like to suggest something that we haven't covered, we appreciate all feedback. Please feel free to write a comment on this post, even if it is just to say "Hi".

Thanks for visiting, and for reading our blog. We hope that you have a great day and perhaps we will hear from you in the future!

-Syd's Eastside

Links:
http://www.AftermarketCAT.com
...A Division of: Syd's Eastside Auto Parts
On the Web @ http://www.SydsAutoParts.com

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Celebrating The First Anniversary of Our Online Presence

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts, Used Cars & Rebuilders has now been online at http://www.SydsAutoParts.com for over a year. Our website has grown and expanded with our business.

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts, Used Cars & Rebuilders had previously been online for 8 months or so prior with a packaged website that allowed visitors to search our inventory, but didn't allow e-commerce and wasn't customizable. Interest in our auto parts offerings quickly grew and that's why we created our own custom professional website with full search capabilities cross indexed for interchangeable parts and full, secure e-commerce capabilities.

In the past year we have added website functionality and expanded our business:

1. Added licensed Hollander Interchange cross-indexing to show all available interchangeable parts across makes, models and years in our Online Auto Parts Search Results.
2. Continued to keep and maintain an up-to-date catalog of our available Used Cars and Trucks For Sale offers online through the website.
3. Added E-Commerce functionality with a secure Shopping Cart for online auto parts shopping.
4. Offered New Aftermarket Auto Parts through our toll-free ordering service.
5. Added a Featured Parts & Products Showcase to allow us to highlight some of our available tools and products, as well as showcase our new and used auto parts.
6. Expanded our business to offer Aftermarket Caterpillar Diesel Engine Parts.
7. Added a section for our Heavy Equipment & Machinery offerings.

Remember that we are no longer just a salvage yard and now offer new aftermarket automotive parts and aftermarket Caterpillar diesel parts.

We look to further expand our product and service lines further to better accomodate our customers in the future. We certainly hope that you will be pleased with the results.

Thanks to our customers and suppliers for our past and continued success!
-SydsEastside

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Tail Light Clear Coat Polish

So today as a learning project to fixing the crack lines on my spoiler clear coat in the future, I decided to fix up my Tail Light Clear Coat that took the abuse of a Canadian Winter and salt and looked dull and had the same crack lines.

Before picture of the tail light:



You see the lines and how dull it is. Hence why I took them off the car and put my all reds back.

My weapons of choice:
3m Swirl Remover (get it here!) and 600 grit Sandpaper:

Mothers Powerball (get it here!):


So wet sand the clear coat down to remove imperfections and for me I used 600 grit as anything higher would not remove the lines / cracks that were in my clear coat:


Remember! if you sand to far you may remove all the clear coat. Keep checking to make sure you don't completely remove the clear coat.

Once it is sanded and you see the cracks / lines gone and it looks smooth, its time to use the swirl mark remover:

Here it is on the sanded part of the tail light:

I used too much here I think, but oh well :)

Then use the Mothers Powerball to shine those tails up real nice.

Here's two pics of how clear they are:




Here's three pics showing the difference in Before and After:




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New Aftermarket Cat Engine Parts Sales

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts now has the capability to offer New Aftermarket Cat Engine Parts to the general public as an authorized IPD distributor and dealer.

For those of you that might also be looking for aftermarket Cat (Caterpillar) motor parts, Syd's Eastside is expanding it's product line into this area. Currently, we are investigating solutions for offering these aftermarket Cat engine parts online. However, we can already order many aftermarket Cat motor parts for you if you would just give us a call at 1-605-665-5119 or Toll-Free at 1-800-505-5119.

IPD is a global manufacturing, engineering and distribution company providing quality components for heavy-duty equipment. IPD focuses on helping equipment owners save money without risk to reliability. IPD has been the standard for heavy equipment component quality, innovation and support since 1955.

Many of these aftermarket parts exceed the Caterpillar original manufacturer's specifications, so although these parts may cost less, they often introduce better reliability over original equipment parts.

IPD parts innovation includes:

• Grooved connecting rod bearings for use in Caterpillar 3400 series engines which help reduce cavitation and extend bearing life.
• Crevice seal style liners for Caterpillar 3400 series engines which can help reduce the amount of cylinder liner movement and o-ring failure in these applications.
• When mechanics complained of excessive blow-by in 3208 Caterpillar engines, IPD developed the first 3-ring pistons with dual ni-resist inserts for this application.
• IPD was one of the first companies to offer Induction Hardened Cylinder Liners for use in Caterpillar engine applications.
  

IPD aftermarket heavy equipment parts includes a tremendous variety of offerings for the Caterpillar diesel engine family. An extremely simplified list of the kinds of examples of their products follow:

• Articulated Cast Steel Pistons with Aluminum Skirts
  
• Gallery Cooled Pistons
  
• Piston Rings
• Induction-Hardened Cylinder Liners
• Crankshafts
• Camshafts
• Valve Train Parts
• Lifters
• Throwers and Baffles
• Rocker Arm Buttons
  
• Fuel Nozzles
• Fuel Pumps
• Water Pump Kits
  
• Bearings (i.e.: Copper Alloy Engine Bearings)
  
• Bushings
  
• Premium Material Gaskets and Gasket Sets (OEM steel or IPD composite)
• In & Out of Frame Complete Engine Overhaul Kits.

IPD manufacturers superior part products and overhaul kits for:

• Caterpillar 3406E & C15 Engines
  
• Caterpillar 3508/3512/3516 Engines
  -Over 700 part numbers not including gaskets and o-rings!
  
• Caterpillar 353/379/398/399 Engines
  -Over 500 part numbers not including gaskets and o-rings!
• Caterpillar 3304/3306 Engines
  -Over 1000 part numbers not including gaskets and o-rings!
• Caterpillar 3114/3116 Engines
• Caterpillar 3126 Engines
  
• Older Caterpillar Engine Parts Support includes:
  -D339 -D342 -G342 -D343 -G353 -D346 -D348 -3204/3208

Having your Cat motor configuration number will help expedite the ordering process, as this will give us more information that we can use to look up the engine configuration. In some cases, we may require the equipment serial number.

Call us to order or get more information!
Syd's Eastside Auto Parts
1-605-665-5119 or Toll-Free at 1-800-505-5119

Or Contact Us Online.

-Doug
Syd's Eastside Auto Parts

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Heavy Construction & Machinery

Used Heavy Equipment and Machinery; Construction, Utility and Landscaping Vehicles

We have established a new section on our website dedicated to Heavy Equipment & Machinery listings. The listings include many trucks as well as heavy machinery (such as 2 fifth wheel equipped semi-trucks or a crane).

There are construction vehicles such as an Eric truck crane, road service trucks such as an Oshkosh snow plow, utility trucks such as three white 1988 Chevrolet utility trucks, and landscaping truck, such as a 66 inch tree spade truck.

Thumbnail Samples of the Equipment/Machinery Listings you will Find:The owners of Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage, Inc., and Feimer Construction Company, Inc., are selling this heavy equipment, machinery and construction vehicles on behalf of Fejfar Construction & Equipment.

Currently, we are concentrating on getting photographs of this heavy equipment and machinery online so that interested parties can view the equipment, machinery and vehicles easily. The above thumbnails are merely a small sampling of what is available at the website. As of this writing, there are twenty-one listings, and we still have more photos to take and put online.

Later, we will add more detailed textual descriptions for the listings and then start listing them in on/off-line industry publications and other construction sales oriented websites.

We hope that you may find something that may be of interest to you. If you need more information, please contact us. We would be happy to take more and better photos of any of the heavy equipment, machinery or vehicles that you may be interested in. We are available online through our Contact Form, or you may call us at 1-605-665-5119 or 1-800-505-5119.

Link:
Heavy Equipment & Machinery

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