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Originally Posted by Too Many Projects
When I worked at the St Paul plant, the body drop was cool, but the front clip always amazed me, how quickly those guys steered the whole thing into place and dropped the core support on the bolts. It was bolted up and getting adjusted in like 10 seconds.
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Front end sheetmetal install: Tended to vary based on whatever is was en vogue at the time. When I started in Flint, Line 1 pickups were built piecemeal (radiator support set loosely on the chassis, then LH fender, then RH fender, then hood) but Line 2 Blazer/Suburban was "buck build" as shown here. Same product, under the same roof; two different processes.
My first "real job" after graduating from GMI was as a production supervisor, Line 1 Fender Set area, second shift. We did it piecemeal, then, too. Line rate was 60 jobs per hour, or one completed vehicle per minute, so we had about 45 seconds to get both front fenders on.
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