While many of his co-workers were still asleep, Rush Truck Center – Waco technician Kevin Chupik was hard at work assembling a transmission.
Chupik, who is representing his dealership in the Rush Tech Rodeo in San Antonio this week, was given 45 minutes to assemble a transmission main shaft and shift cover.
“I could probably do it faster if I was at work doing it for real,” he says of the assembly process that took him almost the entire 45 minutes to complete.
Aside from skill and training, Chupik was only able to use a parts manual as a guide to put the pieces together and had to complete a written test at the end of the process.
“I did fair,” he says looking back over the timed event. “I probably could have used another five minutes for the written part.”
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Although he finished the assembly, Chupik recognized there was an O-ring left on the table from the shift cover.
