The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 230 Three Turns and One Sound

There was a man lying on a board in the yard. Because it was caused by work, many people from the unit came to visit him. The unit also helped him with money and effort.

There are also many relatives coming to visit. Anyway, there have been quite a few people coming in and out of the yard recently.

Jiang Cheng has been busy during the day and at night these days.

During the day, he went to the factory to dismantle cars and replace various parts. A logistics team leader of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative was transferred here to listen to Jiang Cheng's arrangements. According to Jiang Cheng's requirements, he directly arranged people to go to various units to process and purchase parts.

At night, I have to study how to assemble it at home, the assembly order, the circuits, and the parts. There is also a sequence for assembling a car, just like a computer. How can you install other parts without installing the motherboard?

The same goes for cars. The first thing to do is to install the frame, and then assemble the chassis.

It can only be said that the name of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative is impressive enough, and the car still has a lot of frame preserved. On the fourth day, all the parts were complete.

Assembly began on the fifth day, assembling the optimized and upgraded version of Shanghai SH760.

In recent days, Jiang Cheng's tinkering with the car in the repair shop had spread to everyone in the company. Even drivers from other companies had heard about it.

On the day of assembly, the apprentices had no chance to help out, as other masters volunteered to do the work. They even invited drivers from other units to come and watch and learn.

This time it was not a simple repair, but a complete assembly of a car. If Jiang Cheng succeeded, he would definitely be called a "big shot" in the car driver circle of Changcheng, which means a big shot in the industry.

To assemble the car, Jiang Cheng only needs to direct and inspect. There are five or six masters helping him, and he can always call for more if there are not enough.

Because there are many visitors, many of them are drivers from other units. For these assistants, it is also a way to show their skills. In their opinion, even if a screw is not screwed in place, it is a shame.

It takes half a day to assemble a frame. It is not just about splicing, but also about ensuring the quality and precision of the frame. The quality and precision of the frame directly affect the overall performance and safety of the car.

In fact, if there were assembly equipment, it wouldn't take much time at the car factory. But now it's all manual assembly, without machine positioning, relying on various wrenches and screwdrivers and other tools in everyone's hands.

After the frame is installed, the suspension system is installed, including shock absorbers, springs, control arms and other components. Especially the hydraulic shock absorbers, many masters have never touched them, so Jiang Cheng had to explain them to them while he personally did it.

After the suspension system is installed, the brake system is installed, and then the steering system. When installing the steering system, Jiang Cheng also explained the use and principle of the power steering pump.

I don't know if it's because the weather is cold and time flies by quickly, or because the weather is cold and people move slowly. It wasn't until the evening that I started to assemble the wheels and tires.

But the installation on the first day was already shocking. It’s not that the assembly was so awesome, but that Jiang Cheng added hydraulic shock absorbers and power steering pumps based on the original vehicle.

This hydraulic shock absorber is not a new thing, it has been used in Hongqi cars for a long time. But most cars still use leaf springs and torsion bar springs for shock absorption. The shock absorption effect is there, but there is still a noticeable bumpy feeling.

As for the power steering pump, it is still only used on Hongqi cars. After all, Hongqi cars are used by senior leaders and to receive foreign guests.

The Shanghai SH760 was originally produced to fill the gap between the middle-level leaders and the middle-level leaders. It is normal that it lags behind the Hongqi car in terms of configuration.

On the second day of assembly, the first step was to assemble the body shell. This was easy because the shell structure had not been changed, and the deformed parts were smoothed out by senior sheet metal workers and some masters.

After the shell and chassis were installed, it still looked like a standard Shanghai SH760.

But Jiang Cheng also simply upgraded the interior. The seats of this car are actually hard seats. Because the passenger seat was the most seriously hit, the passenger seat needed to be replaced, so he simply replaced all of them with soft leather.

After the car shell was installed, Jiang Cheng also started to work on it himself, because wiring was needed, which was the most important part to test the driver's control over the car structure. If you don't even know how many wires to lay and which one goes where, or if you forget, it means that you don't have a thorough understanding of the car's component structure.

A car needs to have hundreds of wires, and if one wire is missing, a function may be missing, which is why cars today are relatively simple. In the future, any car will have at least thousands of wires.

Wiring is beyond the ability of ordinary car mechanics. In this era, car drivers are assessed for maintenance, but wiring skills are definitely not assessed.

If the wiring is done properly, any technician present can assemble it.

And Jiang Cheng did exactly that. He laid out the wires, installed the lights, horns, wipers, connected the car instruments, indicator lights, and other things. Jiang Cheng didn't need to give any instructions. He just said to install these things, and everyone started working.

It happened that on the morning of the seventh day, the car was assembled and all that was left was inspection.

When President Ouyang Chengfeng heard that the car had been assembled, he also came to the repair workshop to check it out.

A week of hard work day and night, plus the contributions of many people, success or failure actually depends on this one move.

The car's hood is open. What we need to do now is to start the engine. First, we need to see if the engine can be started. Second, we need to see if there will be any abnormal noise from the vehicle after starting.

When the engine was easily started by the key and no unusual noise was heard, everyone present cheered. The hood was closed and the car was smoothly driven out of the repair shop.

After checking the forward and reverse, turning, braking, lights, turn signals and other equipment and finding no problems, Jiang Cheng's name was destined to be remembered by many people in the circle.

Especially in Changcheng, if there are any problems that cannot be solved in the automotive field in the future, everyone will think of Jiang Cheng.

After all, this is a talented person who can disassemble a car and upgrade and reassemble it.

After the car was finished, Ouyang Chengfeng was very happy and called Jiang Cheng to his office.

Jiang Cheng was given a reward of 100 yuan on the spot and was given an approval slip to go to the warehouse to buy a bicycle for domestic sales instead of export.

A bicycle costs about 180 yuan, and other people need a bicycle ticket to buy a bicycle, and in some places, a bicycle ticket can be sold for about 80 to 100 yuan. Now Jiang Cheng can get a bicycle back home by paying 80 yuan plus the reward money.

"President, if there is nothing else, I will leave first." Jiang Cheng said to Ouyang Chengfeng with a smile. He could have as many bicycles as he wanted in Hong Kong, but it was difficult to have a bicycle that he could ride on the road openly in China.

The main thing is that bicycles need to be registered. The bicycle Jiang Cheng got from Hong Kong cannot be registered, so it is easy to be checked when riding it on the road.

In addition, Jiang Cheng does not have a strong desire for a bicycle. He is not at home for many days a month, so a bicycle is not very useful. Bicycles are only needed by those who can go home after commuting to get off work every day.

But buying a bicycle meant that the family had all the necessary equipment, and Zhou Lingying knew how to ride a bicycle. Before she came to Changcheng to work as an educated youth in the countryside, her family had a bicycle.

"Master Jiang, don't be in a hurry to leave. I have something to discuss with you." Ouyang Chengfeng took a sip of tea and said to Jiang Cheng.

Ouyang Chengfeng is the biggest boss of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He told Jiang Cheng not to leave in a hurry. Naturally, Jiang Cheng wanted to stay and hear what else he had to say.

Ouyang Chengfeng came straight to the point, that is, his driver is now in the hospital. A broken bone will not heal for more than a hundred days, and after such an accident, even though the driver is usually the leader's confidant, Ouyang Chengfeng will not use his driver again.

(End of this chapter)