News & Updates SPECIAL FULL COLOR ISSUE ! FEBRUARY 2004 Gaughan, JASPER & Kodak Team Up Inside . . . for Penske-Jasper Racing in 2004 Officials from Eastman Kodak Jasper Engine and Transmission Company and Penske-Jasper Racing Exchange, Inc. The new team will Customer Profile: announced an agreement that will put compete under the Penske-Jasper Martinsburg Service rising racing star Brendan Gaughan Racing banner, with company presi- behind the wheel of the #77 dent Doug Bawel of Jasper Engine Center pg. 2 for the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup and Transmission Exchange, Inc. Series. serving as principal. Calvin Thorn: The multi-year agree- The Alternate Fuel ment calls Alphabet Soup - Part I pg. 3 for

Jeri Cochran: PTFE Shaft Seals - Part I pg. 4 The #77 JASPER Dodge will show this paint scheme for four races this season. JASPER’s NASCAR Penske-Jasper Racing to field a Racing South General Getaway Package pg. 5 in 2004 for Gaughan, 28, from Las Manager, John Erickson, will over- Vegas, who made his mark in see the day to day operations of the NASCAR’s Winston West and team. Support “Right to Repair” Craftsman Truck Series in recent Jasper Engines & Transmissions Legislation pg. 6 years. Kodak will be the primary will be identified as the primary sponsor of the #77 Dodge with Jasper sponsor in four races each year. In Engines & Transmissions (the prima- addition to its sponsorship, JASPER ry sponsor for the past 13 seasons) will provide engineering support participating as a major associate and power train development to the sponsor. The team’s investors are #77 Dodge. Penske Racing South, the owner of The #77 Dodge will be co- the #12 Alltel Dodge of young charg- owned by Jasper Engine and er Ryan Newman and the #2 Miller Transmission Exchange, a long Lite Dodge of veteran and 1989 time Penske business partner, and Series Champion , and will have the benefits of its relation- long time Penske business associate, ship with Penske’s other Nextel Cup teams, the #2 Miller Lite Dodge, driven by Rusty Wallace, and the #12 Alltell Dodge, driven by Ryan Newman. “Having the opportunity to part- Published by: ner with Kodak brings a tremen- Jasper Engines & Transmissions dous amount of credibility to our P. O. Box 650 Jasper, IN 47547-0650 (continued on page 5) Phone: 1-800-827-7455 Fax: 1-812-634-1820 Kodak will be the primary sponsor of www.jasperengines.com the #77 Dodge. 2 Profile clean, friendlyatmosphere sinceMarchof1994. Martinsburg ServiceCenterhas providedcustomerswithprofessionalworkina Martinsburg ServiceCenter are ASECertifiedinthreeormore Master Certification.Theotherfour four ofthemhaveachievedASE There areeighttotaltechnicians, at MartinsburgServiceCenter. automotive repair. exhaust, alignmentandgeneral and differentialreplacement,custom take careofengine,transmission feet andfeaturessixservicebaysto This facilitymeasures6,240square sent locationat123RelianceRoad. opened inMarchof1999atitspre- new MartinsburgServiceCenter with theirgrowingbusiness.The and buildanewfacilitytokeepup family madeplanstobuyland the businessin1997.Andsoon their mother,DeeVaughn,joined happened tome.” and itwasthebestthingthatever leap offaith.Iwasfinallyforcedto own business,justnevermadethe to retireandIalwayswantedmy from apreviousowner.“Hewanted they tookoverathree-baygarage erally onaprayerand$5,000when quality work. would provideconsistent,high- complete carandtruckcenterthat Cole. Theirdreamwastocreatea March of1994byRickandSusan region, openedforbusinessin located inWestVirginia’seastern Experience andtrainingarekey Rick’s brotherRobertCole,and Rick saysthebusinessstartedlit- Martinsburg ServiceCenter, and honesttothecustomer. fessional atmospherethatisfriendly viding vehiclerepairinaclean,pro- Center’s businessphilosophyofpro- around MartinsburgService a truckshop,andpartsroom. would includeaperformanceshop, existing building.Thisexpansion would add5,500squarefeettoits of planningforanexpansionwhich Service Centerisinthefinalstages customers.” Martinsburg ServiceCenterandmy has takenverygoodcareof quality thatJASPERhas. given metheservice,warrantyand in business,andnoneofthemhave factured productssinceIhavebeen have usedalotofdifferentremanu- and installationkits.Colesays,“I engines, transmissions,differentials installed JASPERremanufactured Martinsburg ServiceCenterhas become.” can do,themorevaluablethey employees themoretheyknowand it’s passed.Andweexplaintoour training andASEtestingaslong explained Cole.“We’llpayforthe Martinsburg ServiceCenter,” a mustfortheiremploymentat cation intheautomotiveindustryis need forthemtocontinuetheiredu- sure alltechniciansunderstandthe areas. “Firstandforemost,wemake All ofthissuccessisbased As forthefuture,Martinsburg Over thepastfiveyears, The Alternate Fuel Alphabet Soup - Part 1 by Calvin Thorn - General Manager, JASPER Alternate Fuels Calvin Thorn U.S. comes from natural gas well- refrigerating natural gas to condense head processing. The other 46% it into a liquid. The liquid form is is a graduate come from petroleum refining. much more dense than natural gas or of Centennial Propane is stored as a liquid in low CNG. It has much more energy for Technical pressure fuel tanks mounted on the the amount of space it takes up. So, Collage in vehicle, the propane is changed to a much more energy can be stored in gas vapor before it enters the engine. the same amount of space on a car or Toronto, Because propane enters the engine as truck. That means LNG is good for Canada. a dry gas vapor there is no cooling large trucks that need to go a long Calvin has taking place in the combustion distance before they stop for more been in the automotive chamber as there would be with fuel. industry 29 years, 23 of vaporized gasoline. To handle the Liquefied natural gas is made by added heat in the combustion cham- refrigerating natural gas to minus those working with automo- ber we install hardened valves and 260 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees tive alternative fuels. seats in all LPG and CNG engines. below zero!) to condense it into a Calvin has worked at liquid. This is called liquefaction. JASPER for the past six Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) The liquefaction process removes years in the role of General Natural gas is made up of Manager of the Alternate about 95% methane. The other five percent is made up Fuels Division. of various gases along with small amounts of water Jasper Engines and Transmissions vapor. Because of its clean has been building alternate fuel burning nature and the fact engines for many years. We use that it is not made from words like LPG, CNG, FFV, E85, petroleum, as gasoline and M85 and Biodiesel when talking diesel are, many auto makers about these engines. But what does around the world are devel- all this mean, what are these different oping vehicles to run on nat- fuels and what changes does JASPER ural gas. CNG is stored as a make to these engines over a regular high-pressure gas (3600 psi) gasoline and diesel engine? in fuel tanks mounted to the vehicle. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) - CNG engines have the hydrocarbon gases under low same seat and valve modifi- pressure cation as the LPG engines. Propane, also known as LPG (liq- JASPER has recently started The JASPER Optimized Alternate Fuel Engine uefied petroleum gas), is the leading building CNG 5.9 liter delivers the performance and reliability expected alternative fuel in the country. It is Cummins engines. This from a conventional gasoline engine. also the nation’s third most common engine is used mostly in transit appli- most of the water vapor, butane, vehicular fuel used today, after gaso- cations. propane, and other trace gases, that line and diesel. There are over are usually included in ordinary 270,000 on-road vehicles in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) - natural gas. The resulting LNG is United States and 8 million world- natural gas that is very, very cold usually more than 98% pure wide that operate on propane. A Natural gas can be made into methane. Caterpillar, Cummins, large number of these are used in three forms. One kind is the low- Detroit Diesel, Mack and Navistar fleets that include light- to heavy- pressure form you use to cook or sell heavy-duty natural gas engines duty trucks, buses, taxicabs, police heat your home. Another form is that can operate on LNG. cars, airport shuttles, and national compressed natural gas (CNG). This In the next issue of News & parks tour buses. LPG is also used to form is compressed into high-pres- Updates, we’ll discuss BioDiesel, power industrial forklifts, irrigation sure fuel cylinders to power a car or PuriNOx Diesel Fuel, and the and petroleum pump engines. truck. The third form is liquefied nat- Alcohol-based fuels - Ethanol & 54% of the LPG produced in the ural gas (LNG). LNG is made by Methanol.

3 PTFE Shaft Seals - Part 1 by Jeri Cochran, Product Engineering Manager - Engine Seals, Federal-Mogul Corporation the clearance gap. Jeri Cochran In order to effect a dynamic seal, the pump rate of the sealing element Direction is the Product of oil flow must exceed the combination of fluid Engineering pressure and surface forces working Manager on to force oil past the lip. Engine Seals The pumping rate changes over for Federal- time and under different operating Figure 2 - The PTFE sealing element acts Mogul Corpor- conditions as various factors change: like a pump. ation. She the clearance gap may increase with PTFE element. Figure 3 shows the has worked in that position seal wear, the viscosity of the oil most popular designs. for 12 years. Prior to that, changes over time, and PTFE relax- Each design has advantages and ation over time causes the groove limitations which affect where it can Jeri managed the Seal profile to change, and the contact be effectively used, and what other Technical Center for three pressure that is exerted on the shaft to design features are used to compen- years. She worked at diminish. sate for limitations. Detroit Diesel for 12 years The effective groove profile will The top groove shown is not a as a materials development also change over time due to wear, groove. It is a slit thread – cut with manager. She holds de- and contaminants (either oil degrada- a knife on a lathe with no material grees in biology, chemistry tion products or external contami- removal. The groove volume is and mechanical engineering. nants) filling the groove volume. achieved by the element stretching When a PTFE seal can no longer to fit the shaft – and effectively the PTFE shaft seals have been used pump effectively, it can no longer volume varies across the contact since the 1970’s in heavy duty function as a dynamic seal. zone. This design has the advan- diesel engine rear crankshaft seal Since PTFE elements require a tages of being more effective as a applications, and quickly became screw thread to effect a dynamic seal, static seal, since there is much less the overwhelming choice because of static sealing is a challenge because a volume to allow fluid transfer. It is the extended seal life achieved. leak path is inherent in the design. also effective in sealing air pressure They have been used in passenger Static sealing is effected by the con- as in an on-line engine assembly cars and light trucks since the early tact pressure distribution across the aircheck. The contact pressure dif- 1990’s in the US and are becoming sealing element. ferential across the sealing zone is more popular in Europe in these effective in creating an oil cooling applications as well. Different Groove Designs and mechanism and thus reducing PTFE seals are different from Manufacture underlip temperature and the chance conventional elastomeric shaft seals There are two main approaches to for oil carbonization. The machin- in both the seal design and the seal- creating the pumping grooves of the ing operation allows for flexibility ing material. Figure 1 shows a in PTFE filler materials and in cross section of the two different groove profile details, but it is a P.T.F.E. Bore sealing technologies. Seal more expensive operation than coin-

air oil ing. Because of the smaller groove Theory of PTFE Sealing volume, slit threads are more sus- Shaft A PTFE sealing element acts as Surface Shaft ceptible to contamination issues and a mechanical screw pump (see oil carbonization and may require Figure 2). The element is coined or more complex dirt exclusion cut with a screw thread or groove to devices. Elastomeric pump oil from under the lip back Lip Seal Bore The lower two designs shown in into the sump. The element is oil Figure 3 are coined threads. The dependent upon the same factors for oil groove volume is much larger, and pump rate as a screw pump: the Shaft thus the initial pumping rate is speed the shaft turns, the viscosity Surface air greater. Because of the large groove and temperature of the fluid being volume, these designs are less sus- pumped, the angle and pitch of the Figure 1 - Comparison of PTFE and ceptible to the negative effects on screw thread, the groove profile and elastomeric shaft seal design (continued on page 6)

4 (Continued from page 1) Truck Series Circuit. Gaughan posted a series-leading six wins, race team and I look forward to the along with 14 top-five finishes and business-to-business opportunities 18 top-10s in 2003 truck racing that will develop from this new competition. He challenged for the relationship,” said . series championship until a crash in Jasper Engines & Transmis- the last race of the year dropped sions president Doug Bawel com- him to fourth in the final standings. mented, “We are excited to be asso- “I’m thrilled to get this opportu- ciated with such a great company as nity and thankful to so many peo- Kodak and we’re excited about fur- ple,” said Gaughan, a former colle- ther developing and strengthening giate basketball player and champi- our relationship with the Penske on off-road racer. I appreciate the organization. We are also very confidence that Kodak, JASPER pleased about our new relationship and the Penske-Jasper Racing orga- with Dodge and to have such an up 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series nization have shown in my abilities and coming driver in Brendan “Rookie of the Year” Brendan Gaughan and I’m very excited about the Gaughan behind the wheel of the replaces behind the wheel opportunity to represent one of the #77 car and as part of this great of the #77 Kodak Dodge in the 2004 most respected global brand names new team of Penske-Jasper Racing.” NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. in sports. To drive the Kodak Gaughan, a graduate of George- Winston West competition and Dodge for an organization the cal- town University, joins the top level claiming “Rookie of the Year” hon- iber of Penske-Jasper Racing is a of NASCAR racing after winning ors and scoring eight wins in two dream come true. I can’t wait for two championships in NASCAR seasons on the NASCAR Craftsman the 2004 season to begin.”

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5 (continued from page 4) Atlanta Branch Facility Voted “Best Industrial Site” Slit Thread design

Coined Groove design Figure 3 - Alternative PTFE element designs. pumping from carbonization or external dirt contamination, although they may allow outside contamination to be transferred into the oil system. These designs gen- erally require PTFE compounds with higher glass content to reduce PTFE relaxation and maintain groove profile geometry. Higher glass content materials are stiffer and more abrasive, so these designs may cause significant shaft wear or Each year, the Building Department of the City of Peachtree City, high underlip temperatures. These Georgia, recognizes local builders for outstanding achievement during designs have more difficulty sealing the preceding year. The 2003 awards of recognition were presented by statically, and may not seal air pres- Peachtree City Building Official Tom Carty and Peachtree City Mayor sure at all without additional fea- Steve Brown to Jasper Engines & Transmissions and Leslie Construction tures, such as a static dam across the for Best Industrial Site in 2003. This was one of four awards presented groove in the contact zone or a by the council at their January 15, 2004 meeting. contacting barrier. “We think that outstanding achievement should receive recognition,” In the next issue, we will discuss Peachtree City Building Official Tom Carty said, “and these building the material differences between professionals have actively worked to excel in construction quality and PTFE and elastomeric seals, and job site safety. Each of these firms has been excellent to work with over their design. the past year.” The Builder of the Year Awards is an annual event, and awardees are Writer’s Note: PTFE is polytetra- selected by the members of Peachtree City’s Developmental Services fluoroethylene, commonly known as Division who deals with the various stages of development and Teflon®, which is Dupont’s name for construction. this material. Support "Right to Repair” Legislation Jasper Engines & Transmis- the companies that supply them. ensure all parties fulfill their obliga- sions believes car owners and inde- The Motor Vehicle Owners Right tions to the motoring public. pendent repair shops must have full to Repair Act (H.R. 2735 & S. 2617) You can show support for the access to information, parts and prevents vehicle makers and others Motor Vehicle Owner’s Right to tools to accurately diagnose, repair from unfairly restricting access to Repair Act by sending a letter to or re-program these modern sys- the information, parts and tools nec- your United States Representative or tems. By restricting access to such essary to properly diagnose, repair, Senator, informing them of the legis- information, car manufacturers re-program or install automotive lation. Let them know how this leg- force motorists to bypass indepen- replacement parts. The Act ensures islation will help you and other con- dent repair shops and patronize only that motorists retain the right to stituents who use their vehicles in new car dealerships. Restricting choose how and by whom their vehi- their everyday lives. A model letter customer choice would inevitably cles are maintained and repaired. to send to your lawmaker can be lead to higher prices and under- Most importantly, the Right to found at www.aftermarket.org/ maintained vehicles. Moreover, the Repair Act includes an enforcement government. lack of competition will lead to the mechanism under the auspices of the failure of independent garages and Federal Trade Commission, to

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