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[halligan1201]

So not a Ranger but still a Ford Truck and too cool not to share. @AzScorpion probably a dream project for you lol. I wonder if Phil or some of the other Ford production folks here can speak to the wax writing on the radiator shroud.

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[halligan1201]

And full disclosure - my girlfriend found this and sent it to me. She swears she not a truck person lol.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

So not a Ranger but still a Ford Truck and too cool not to share. @AzScorpion probably a dream project for you lol. I wonder if Phil or some of the other Ford production folks here can speak to the wax writing on the radiator shroud.

Hi John,

I think the crayon marking is the assembly plant rotation number. When production is scheduled for a vehicle it is given a rotation number which is used to track the vehicle and component assemblies for the vehicle during assembly. Back in that time, the front clip minus the hood was assembled on a trim line including the horse collar and radiator support and hence the horse collar has crayon on it as well as the fan shroud. Each plant is given lattitude on how they build the truck so lets say an operation is from a open pit on the line...so the operator doing overhead assembly might want to id the vehicle so you might find a crayon rotation number on the rear diff or underside of the pick up box. A senario might be a part was damaged during assembly, so the operator alerts the line foreman for that area and will refer to the vehicle by rotation number. Foreman then alerts the repair area of the need to pull the vehicle off the end of the final line and into the repair area...So the repair folks look at the rotation number and know what part needs repair or replacement. Make sense? Vin numbers are much too clunky to use. Rotation numbers such as this will be used again and again as it is likely several days before the sequence repeats...

best,
Phil

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