Uhm...no. Let's walk thru this for
@Stutsmo
You grew up near Dearborn, Michigan. You have friends or family that work at the local assembly plant. You graduated from high school a few years ago. You are a member of the United Auto Worker's Union, and You have 1 job. Your job is to take the Vehicle Warranty Data plate, and affix it to the next vehicle coming down the line. You have been trained and certified to do your job.
It is 1967. Ford is in full production on the assembly line. The assembly line has been in continuous operation, moving 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since the end of August. You only shut down at Christmas and again at model year change in late July. The current Takt time is roughly 90 seconds. (Takt time meaning "drum-beat" or cadence.) So EVERY 90 seconds, a vehicle is presented to you.
The vehicle you get might be a pickup truck, it might be a Bronco. It doesn't matter to you. You don't care. You might be a car enthusiast, you might not. But no matter. You have a pre-stamped warranty data plate, and a kanban bin FULL of self expanding rivets. You also have a tool for installing that rivet. That's what you have. That's ALL you have. If anything goes wrong, you are allowed to pull the Andon cord, and summon an engineering team. If the Andon is "red" the line stops moving. A line stoppage equates to the loss of revenue to the tune of about $6,000 per 90 seconds. For easy math, that's $240,000 of lost revenue every hour. That revenue can NEVER be recovered. So if you can't do your job, and your union does not allow you to perform tasks outside of your job, and you can't perform those outside tasks without tools either way...the LAST thing anyone wants is for you to pull that cord. (although you will be instructed that quality is everyone's job...so don't be afraid to pull the cord. Just don't.)
So you've been installing data plates all day, just like yesterday, and just like tomorrow. But then one day, a Bronco comes down the line, and the kick panel does not have the holes for the plate. Please tell me EXACTLY what you are going to do???
First, you are not going to "drill" a hole. You don't have a drill. You are NOT going to install a screw. You do not HAVE a screw, or a screwdriver. And you have no chance of getting the second hole in the right spot. If there were a dimple or a pilot hole, you might be tasked with drilling a hole...but that's not your job. Oh, wait...shit. There's another chocolate coming down the conveyor. (...I love Lucy reference) OK, Stop the line, I'm pulling the rip cord!
See how this works? Can you imagine if Ford were putting an engine together, and a hole was missing? "oh, don't worry about that head bolt, just drill an extra hole..." It doesn't work that way. The kick panel on a 1967 Bronco has all of the holes, slots, and nuts attached prior to weld and assembly and certainly paint. The holes for the data plate are punched, finished, de-burred, and ready to go. They will always be in the same place per the specification. (Unless something "special" has happened.)
The kick panel on an early Bronco is the #1, most common, all time most likely to rust part ever. The kick panel extends to the inner apron, and the sheet metal sandwich holds moisture. It is without a doubt the "most-repaired" piece of rusty metal on a Bronco. The location of the data plate holes are well understood, but totally ignored because it is a 66-67 only item. My 100% rust free, original metal 1967 Military Bronco has the holes in EXACTLY the same place as my U13 roadster. So let me assure you that the plate goes in one location.
