Chapter 32 Look down on the auto mechanic

Wang Haibin sat in the 212 jeep with a gloomy face.

As Li Weidong expected, Wang Haibin could not buy a single car, even if he had the list approved by the Department of Transportation in his hand.

Of course, the Yellow River Factory didn't say anything. They just said that the production capacity was insufficient, so there was no car for Wang Haibin at the moment. If Wang Haibin needed to pick up the car, he had to wait in line.

As for the waiting time, the Yellow River Factory is also relatively clear, about the middle of 1986, the car can be mentioned.

Wang Haibin held the plan in 1985, but he could not mention the car until mid-1986. Who should make sense of it!

Wang Haibin also knows that the Yellow River Factory is not really out of stock, they just don't want to sell the car to you, and they deliberately find an excuse to drag it first.

It is extremely rare for Wang Haibin to hold the approval slip in the plan, but they do not give the goods. Wang Haibin also knew very well that those who dared to do this were big factories with strong backgrounds and strengths.

It's not that I, Wang Haibin, don't work hard, it's just that the Yellow River Factory is too deceiving! Wang Haibin took a deep breath of resentment. The procurement task was not completed. After returning to Qinghe, I'm afraid it would be difficult to entertain the company leaders.

As the director of the procurement department, Wang Haibin's job responsibility is to purchase various materials for the transportation company. Unplanned materials are sometimes in short supply, and it is excusable if they cannot be purchased, but if the planned materials cannot be purchased, then Wang Haibin himself has no ability.

Today's Wang Haibin is holding the note in the plan, but he can't mention the car, which is enough to make the company leaders question his ability to work.

We can only put the responsibility on the Yellow River Plant. It is said that the Yellow River Plant's production capacity is insufficient, and the car will not be mentioned until next year. Anyway, this is the reason that the Yellow River Plant gave me. Wang Haibin decided to throw the blame.

After starting the jeep, Wang Haibin drove to the guest house. He planned to leave Jicheng City early tomorrow morning and leave this depressed place.

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Li Weidong made a long-distance call to Cui Dashan and asked for a week's travel leave. During the phone call, Li Weidong did not say that he wanted to help Wei Bin translate the Japanese documents, but only said that the Yellow River Factory had some technical problems and needed his own help.

This excuse made Cui Dashan very confused. What technical problems can a repairman help the Yellow River Factory solve?

However, with Wei Bin as bailout, Cui Dashan did not embarrass Li Weidong, and happily agreed.

For Cui Dashan, Li Weidong is an idler in the workshop. There are not many people without him, and there are not many people without him. Without Li Weidong wandering around in the workshop, Cui Dashan can still be relaxed in front of his eyes.

In Cui Dashan's eyes, Li Weidong's value is to let himself take out a small red book.

So Li Weidong moved to the guest house of the Yellow River Factory to help Wei Bin translate the Japanese book.

The conditions of the guest house of the Yellow River Factory are indeed very good, and the meals in the guest house are also very rich. By the standards of the time, it was more than enough to receive foreign guests.

Five days passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Weidong had finished translating the Japanese document. He planned to send Wei Bin a business, leave by the way, and return to the Qinghe Transportation Company.

Li Weidong came to the rework workshop of the Yellow River Plant, but saw Liu Jinlong squatting under the sun smoking a cigarette.

Brother Liu, is Director Wei here? Li Weidong asked.

Director Wei is in the office. Liu Jinlong replied, then waved to Li Weidong, motioning for Li Weidong to come over.

Li Weidong always came to Liu Jinlong, and Liu Jinlong said, Be careful when you see Director Wei later, Director Wei is not in a good mood today.

Why? Li Weidong asked.

There is a technical problem with the car, and the cause has not yet been found. The engineers in the factory are also upset about this matter. Liu Jinlong replied.

Li Weidong did not ask in detail,

Liu Jinlong, who said goodbye, went directly to Wei Bin's office.

Director Wei, I have finished translating this book. Li Weidong said and looked at Wei Bin, only to find that Wei Bin was wearing a pair of panda's dark circles and looked haggard.

Director Wei, you don't seem to be in a good state of mind! Li Weidong said.

Hey, don't mention it, there was a problem with the batch of cars. I stayed up all night last night, but I still couldn't find the reason. Wei Bin said.

Is there a batch of cars? How many? Li Weidong asked.

Hundreds of them! Wei Bin said, took off his eyes, rubbed his Qingming acupoint, and then said, Many of the 162 heavy trucks produced by our factory last year were sold to Yankuang, and this is the batch. When there was a problem with the car, the factory asked us to find a way to solve it as soon as possible, so as not to delay the normal production of Yankuang.”

Li Weidong nodded and expressed his understanding that Yankuang is a super-large enterprise in the country and the top among state-owned enterprises. Coal supply is related to people's livelihood and the normal operation of the economy. Ensuring Yankuang's production is also a political task.

Although the Yellow River Plant is very good, it is a key enterprise in the province, but in front of Yankuang, it is only a younger brother. If Yankuang stops operating, there will be no coal supply, and a large number of enterprises in North China and Northeast China will be paralyzed.

Wei Bin went on to say: Although Yankuang is pressing hard, this is not what I am most worried about. What I am worried about is that our car has some design flaws. If that happens, it will not just be sold to Yankuang. The hundreds of cars in the mine, the thousands of cars we produce, have problems.”

If it's a vehicle design problem, I'm afraid there will be a large-scale recall... Li Weidong said here, and suddenly remembered that there was no such thing as car recall in China in the 1980s.

Car recall? That's a matter of developed countries. Our country does not have a recall. If there is a problem with the vehicle, it will either continue to drive immediately, or simply stop production.

Wei Bin shook his head with a wry smile, and continued, I thought I could rely on the 62nd heavy card to fight a turnaround, but I didn't expect that something went wrong. In the final analysis, our skills are not as good as others!

Speaking of which, this is also a step that we have taken too far. The 16-two heavy trucks in our factory use a lot of Steyr's technology. In fact, according to the original plan, we plan to use Steyr's technology in five years, and then imitate Steyr's heavy-duty trucks.

Wei Bin said here, put on his glasses again, and then said: It's a pity that the time is not for me, the country has a demand for heavy trucks, and there is pressure on efficiency, and our factory also needs to survive, so we will use Stahl's technology with our factory's original technology. Some technologies have been integrated to make a 16-two card. Now that I think about it, this move is still too hasty, and many key technical issues have not been thoroughly studied.”

Steyr heavy-duty trucks are Austrian technologies in the 1970s, but many of the core components are from West Germany, so when they were introduced in China in 1983, this truck could barely be regarded as world-class.

The company responsible for the introduction of Steyr heavy trucks was the Sinotruk Joint Venture Company at that time. There were three companies under the Sinotruk Joint Venture Company, namely the Yellow River Plant, Shaanxi Automobile and Sichuan Automobile, that is, the future Sinotruk, Shaanxi Automobile and SAIC. Red Rock.

These three companies gradually absorbed and digested Steyr's technology. By the end of the 1980s, they could successfully imitate localized Steyr trucks.

Since then, the domestic Steyr has become the only symbol of China's heavy-duty trucks, which has influenced China for 20 years. Throughout the 1990s, all domestic heavy-duty trucks were Steyr. When it comes to heavy-duty trucks in China, it is Steyr. Even today, Steyr's technology is still found in many domestic trucks.

The Yellow River Factory once produced the first heavy-duty truck JN150 in China. In addition, it has some technical reserves. Therefore, after obtaining the technology of Steyr, the Yellow River JN162 was developed and introduced to the market within a year.

It's just that the JN162, which was launched in a hurry, still has many small problems, and many technical problems have not been solved at all. The Yellow River Plant is also producing, checking for faults, and improving the design at the same time.

For the Yellow River Factory, if the JN162 heavy truck has serious technical defects, it will be a catastrophic consequence. The entire truck will be stopped, and the Yellow River Factory will be cold.

In fact, it is no wonder that the Yellow River Plant and the Sinotruk Associated Company lost 600 million US dollars in foreign exchange in order to introduce Steyr's technology. It must be heard.

The Sinotruk joint venture can slowly digest Steyr's technology in a few years, so it is imperative to launch the Yellow River JN162 to bring economic benefits as soon as possible. The car was built and sold very well. The Sinotruk Joint Venture Company can also explain to the country that the precious foreign exchange of 600 million US dollars was not wasted.

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Li Weidong was overjoyed when he learned that there was an unsolvable fault on the 62nd heavy truck. He was good at repairing cars, not to mention that he also had a trump card.

Li Weidong asked, Director Wei, can you tell me what's wrong with your car?

It's okay to tell you. Many of the cars that Yankuang bought had automatic disengagement in fourth gear, Wei Bin said.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said, If only the fourth gear is automatically disengaged, it is very likely that there is a problem with the fourth gear of the gearbox.

I've replaced it with a new one, but it's useless. It's time to get out of gear. Wei Bin shook his head.

Just then, there was a quarrel outside the office.

As I said, there must be something wrong with the gear bushing.

Change to a new gear bushing, isn't it out of gear? If I say it, it's a problem with the gear gauge.

Isn't the shift gauge also replaced, and the fault remains the same, so it's still a problem with the gear bushing. It should be a flaw in the design, which we didn't take into account.

Then I can also say that it is the fault of the shifting gauge!

In the office, Wei Bin frowned, stood up and walked out the door. He saw two engineers in their thirties standing in front of a broken car, arguing fiercely.

Why did Zhang Gong and Wang Gong quarrel again? Wei Bin sighed helplessly and walked over.

Seeing Wei Bin approaching, the two young engineers stopped arguing.

Keep arguing! Why don't you stop arguing? Wei Bin said with a stern face.

The two smiled awkwardly, obviously a little afraid of Wei Bin. One of them said, Wei Gong, we didn't quarrel, we just had a technical exchange. I think the design of the gear bushing should be improved.

No, it's a design flaw in the shift gauge. Another person immediately retorted.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Li Weidong had quietly walked over to the faulty car.

The car's cockpit has been flipped open to reveal the mechanical parts inside.

The Yellow River JN162 adopts the design of a reversible cockpit, which is very friendly to the car mechanic, and the mechanic no longer has to climb up and down the drilling engine compartment.

Li Weidong looked into the engine compartment and found that the car's gearbox had been disassembled, revealing the gears inside.

Does the fourth gear automatically disengage? Li Weidong frowned, as if caught in a memory.

After a while, Li Weidong seemed to remember something.

I saw Li Weidong said: Director Wei, two teachers, I think I already know the cause of the malfunction.

Everyone turned to look at Li Weidong at the same time, and the two engineers even realized that the young man in front of them was an unfamiliar face.

Wei Gong, who is this? Wang Gong asked first.

This is a friend of mine, come to help me with a little favor and translate some documents. Wei Bin said casually.

Translation? Is it a college student at Handong University? This time it was Zhang Gong who asked.

Li Weidong shook his head: No, I'm a car mechanic.

Zhang Gong and Wang Gong's expressions changed at the same time, and there was a hint of disdain in their eyes.

That Wang Gong even said: We are discussing the issue of gearbox design now. You are an auto mechanic, so don't come here to cause trouble.

These two engineers look down on me, an auto mechanic! Li Weidong shook his head helplessly. It seemed that he had to show his hands today.