RAIV and RAV more continuation....

[Steve_Hoog]

I got a ho bunch, going to do some here and there. I'm not going to post the entire interview, here is another little part:

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So they had the body mount cushions all loaded onto the spud wrench?
The doughnuts were all setting right on there, and the spud wrench was up through 'em. When that body came down they'd guide that spud wrench into the hole, and that would bring the body down onto there. They matched up. They didn't have a lot of problems other than cross threaded bolts or maybe one of the rubber body mounts would falloff as the body was getting shifted around. The guy didn't have time to set there and pick that up off the floor to put it back in there. He put the bolt in it, and they'd take a piece of chalk, mark an X on the side of the frame which indicated that it had a body mount that was defective. Something was missing; a bolt wasn't in. Maybe that guy was behind and he just let that one go. He didn't even try to do his job putting the body bolt in. He just put an X on the frame. As it went through they had inspectors. Them inspectors would look at all of this, and they would see the X on the frame and then it would go into final repair. When the car was already running and assembled, they would go back and redo these defects in the car. After they put the body on the first thing that would happen was the radiator support went on. The inner fender wells would go on before the fenders. Then the fenders would go on. There was another assembly line that come in that carried the grilles.



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