[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

From coming out of paint (into trim) to the end of final line could be done within one 8 hour shift.

The chassis would be started about that same time.

From the start of body shop to the end of paint took a couple shifts.

K

Just to elaborate a bit more, when I followed my '87 Chevy pickup down the line:

I got there about 4:30 pm, at the beginning of second shift. The cab and box were just coming down out of paint, so I followed them all the way through trim. Once they were done being trimmed out they go overhead into a huge accumulator, so I ran downstairs just as they were setting the frame rails on the line. I followed the frame to motor set, and the chassis through to body drop, then down the final line.

At the end of the final line it went to roll test, where they wrote up 1) no back up lights and 2) a/c charge. On the short repair line they fixed the lights and I had them buyoff on the a/c charge cause I knew it was fine.

I drove it off the short line myself and over to the shipping building. I told Lloyd - "that's my truck" and left the plant about 1 am.

By 5 pm that same day it was sitting at Hank Graff Chevrolet in Davison - about 9 miles from where we started.



Line rate at Flint Assembly was 60 jobs per hour on the Final line; slightly faster than that on all the feeder lines.

K