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Originally Posted by Skirkpat
I bet you remember a few times of people putting on # 97's part on # 98, and #98's on # 99 and then....ooooohh no, get the repairman!!! LOL
Lookin great, keep up the good work.
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Yep.
The main offenders in that regard were the axle line, which was where the axle assemblies were "trimmed out" (that is, brake lines, ebrake cables, shocks, etc were installed), tires and wheels, hood & fenders, anywhere where the assemblies were built up in a remote area of the plant and then conveyed to the main line. If you got out of sequence there then you had a whole series of vehicles that were messed up.
The VIN stamp was another one. There were several workstations between the VIN stamp and the inspection station, so if you had a bad stamp (or got out of sequence) you had five or six trucks to repair.
Incidently, we actually had a bank of "wrong" tire/wheel assemblies set aside for use. If you built a truck with a wrong axle (ie, six lug instead of five lug, or vice versa) then you could simply install the corresponding "wrong" tire/wheel assembly. That way you could continue to build the truck without stopping the line and the truck would be repaired later (in a "Heavy Repair" stall out back, in the case of an axle replacement).
K