Assembly line

[MoparCarGuy]

The original article PDF plus two more about assembly.

 

[Xcudame]

@Snowdog, thanks for sharing you stink at the factory plant. Should try to write down as much as you can remember! Knowledge like this is so great to share!

 

[Challenger RTA]

Factory dip process.

 

[Snowdog]

Thanks to everyone for you kind comments and additional info. I do remember seeing the one PDF on the complete history of Dodge Main before, very good article, thanks for posting. The body dipping article above is how I remember it. Of course, I couldn't go inside chambers for safety reasons, but when the line was down for repair you see a little of the inside through the access panels when the mill wrights were doing their thing. The one thing on body dipping that was different was for the Aspen / Volarie was that the rear attachment points were large hooks that hooked on/under to the rear wheel well sheet metal. The front attachment was to the dash area by a 3x3 sliding square tube. It was dropped into holes for the front speakers (I think). I lot of times the sliding fixture wouldn't fit and we used our trusty bass hammer to bash the sheet metal in to place. Most of the time it worked, if it didn't we would pull it out of the line and put put it in the repair lines behind us for the repair man to do his thing.