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| | | | Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 | I know it must be somewhere but darned if I can find it. What do the numbers inside the square boxes in the first series assembly manual go to, mean, represent, etc?
Thanks | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | What do you mean by 'first series assembly manual'? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 | the 47-54 factory assembly manual | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | 47 to 55-first-series Advance-Design Trucks If you can post a link to a photo of the page, you might get better/clearer answers. Here is a page from a FAM (Factory Assembly Manual). Are you referring to the box at the lower right? | | | | | Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 924 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 924 | Two symbols used in the FAM-
Numbers in squares designate note reference.
Numbers in circles designate changes (from previous manuals).
Reference: Truck instruction Manual (FAM) : Introduction
Edit- this is from a 1955-59 FAM
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Last edited by Uncle Brad; 09/09/2015 9:18 PM.
Wrench Fetcher, PhD | | | | | Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 9 | tclederman using your picture. I am referring to the box with 6 in it at the end of note 3 just above the text Engine Mounting Instruction.
Uncle Brad if they designate a note reference - where can one find the note to which it refers?
Sorry to being a bit on the lower end of the intelligence scale but it's been driving me up the proverbial wall trying to find it in the manual.
Thanks | | | | | Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 924 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 924 | The note would be on the same page, or on the adjacent page (definitely within the same drawing).
Just find the other square with the same number in it.
You could probably just ask on here- whatever you're trying to figure out by finding the note.
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Wrench Fetcher, PhD | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | 1, 2, and 3 (in circles) are instructions (at lower left) related to parts/located at those circled numbers in the diagram.
The square with 6 inside (next to 3 at the lower left) might be a note-reference (from what Brad posted), but I do not see that note-numberr elsewhere on that page (or associated pages in the 47-55 FAM).
By the way: I have never bent a "bolt lock ear" on my four 1954 GM trucks. Maybe someone else has experience/information about them? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | By the way:
I do not find this information in the 47-55 FAM - that Brad found in the Introduction in the later FAM.
Two symbols used in the FAM-
Numbers in squares designate note reference.
Numbers in circles designate changes (from previous manuals).
There is no Introduction in my hardcopy 47-55 FAM. I'll see if I can find my CD_ROM version of that FAM.
There is no introduction in the CD-ROM version of the 47-55 FAM
Last edited by tclederman; 09/09/2015 11:15 PM. Reason: added note on introduction
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