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    Default factory belt routing sticker wrong?

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Size:  86.0 KBThis belt routing picture is nothing like the factory 2.3 turbo belt routing. I believe this to be correct and original to the car but can't explain why it does not look like the 2.3 routing? Anyone got any ideas
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    Your sticker is clearly for a serpentine drive which you do not have. My guess, junkyard part swapped at some point in it's life

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    The car is an 83 and the engine is v belts. I didn't think serpentine belts were an option until later?

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    The date code on the sticker is 83 and it looks like a V8 belt routing
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    Yeah...that is a 5.0 V8 belt sticker. Something has been swapped on that car at some point, or the factory worker made a simple mistake way back when?
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    Intresting.... the car has been in my family for 28-29 years and was always a 2.3T. Guess it was a factory fluke.

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    The routing of the belts is correct for a 2.3T car with no A/C. If you had A/C, then you would have a third belt with the compressor on the r/h of the engine compartment. The routing sticker in the car is incorrect.
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    Sticker looks factory installed due to patina.
    Highly probable was a line worker minor error.
    Fast line rate, no time to peel it off once stuck.
    In a daydreaming factory routine like 20 v8's in a row then voila a turbo.. oops
    Tired/fatigue or heat if a summer build
    before/after break/lunch/end of shift or start
    new worker, sub, or had good buzz
    simply an non-critical error slipped thru inspection if there is one for that.

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    They were still making this mistake at least until 1995 and probably later than that. The sticker on those cars was stuck to a plastic cowl covering the radiator and core support. There is plenty of evidence of those cars with V8s leaving with the V6 sticker and vice versa. I used to be on one of those forums back in the day

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    Basic thoughts, observations. May or not be totally accurate.

    The plastic cover usually would come from the supplier with the sticker pre installed if several different cover versions were used.
    If is common part for all engines, then possible it was done somewhere on the line.

    Picture little boxs of 1000 preprinted stickers for each variation and a bin of new blank covers nearby.
    Or prelabled parts in multiple marked boxes or bins tagged with the part number.
    Common loose parts could also be prepared in batches ahead of time at a substation to save time on the main line.

    Would be up to the line worker to select and install the correct one.
    If the line was supplied with the correct assortment of parts.
    If you run out of one, use another version if allowed, until correct part is restocked by material handlers.
    Could be someone thought they were all the same, or did not care, and installed whatever they could grab.

    Doubt it was someones only task to sticker parts.

    Multiple task assignments for a work station are common in factories then and now.
    Depends on line speed, type part/parts, work involved, working conditions, level of worker training, attitude, management skill, corporate policies.
    There are times where these variables conflict, causing minor or major errors. Long or short term.
    Very little or no time to correct errors when the lines are running 'normal' or faster than normal.

    Back then, wrong sticker may or may not been an inspection issue requiring rework to correct.
    Saved consumer cost. Now the sticker would be corrected and consumer pays for the error.

    You better believe a supervisor would do something if it was important and errors occurred often.
    Nowadays, parts are scanned in and a line does not proceed unless correct or tagged for rework.
    Computers stop the line which then has to be manually reset by someone via a line control touchscreen.
    Unheard of back then. The line ran unless a big problem arose.
    Very complex automation and product, data logging, and QC, are big reasons the cost of cars and other products have risen dramatically.
    This is the procedure now from raw material to finished product and beyond in the quest for perfection/max profits with no guilt.
    Companies do not eat mistakes whenever possible. They pass everything on, more than ever, by raising consumer cost of product.
    Worker has a say up to a certain point. Like it or work somewhere else.

    If sticker target area is, say directly on the car sheet metal, then it is done 'live'.
    Sometimes a worker will grab a few and walk down the line 'passing out stickers'.
    To catch up or get ahead.
    Rather than wait for each car to arrive at the work station and do one at a time.
    Last edited by gr79; 07-29-2017 at 10:23 AM.

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