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Curious as to what people do. I've been assembling an Ork Trukk and decided to assemble major components (undercarriage, bed, figures, etc), prime, basecoat, wash, and the complete assembly. I thought that full assembly would make it too hard to fully prime everything and get to details.

I think it depends on what type of vehicle you are putting together. I would fully assemble then prime a Rhino without any interior painting happening but I would definitley only partially assemble an Ork Trukk before priming/ painting it because of all the areas that would be obscured.

I prime after I've assembled the model.

I am with Matty Boy. I primed and painted the interior peices of my landraider, while priming the rest on the sprue, then partially assembled it and painted it to maybe 80%, then assembled the rest. Mostly I left the sponsons in peices to paint so I could get to the inner bits. Things like Rhinos I assemble completely then prime, and my Exorcists were put together in so far as the chassis, the pipes, the pulpit and the musician all being seperately primed and painted.

Just makes it easier that way.

Prime after you have assembled for the most part. The problem with leaving on the sprue is then you have to go and scrape the primer off of the contact surface for the glue, otherwise most glue will just fure the primer to the primer and you will have a weak bond. Though in the event you have a complicated model sometimes there is no way around it suck as Wehrkind's Land Raider. In that case assemble what you feel you can paint in one piece then prime it and what ever else you have to. Unfortunatly with orks most of my stuff is heavily converted and I do not know what it is going to look like till it is done and that is when I prime it. There will almost always be sections of unprimed model that the can can not get to so I water down some black paint and do my best to hit those areas. Thankfully with Orks, like in your case, rough paintjobs are a must, so if you have some hard-to-get areas inside the chasis that are left black then that is okay, or even prefered. After all, how many old car engines have you looked at that still have distinguishable parts? It is all one big grimey mess of exhast soot. And for icing on the cake, really if you can not get to it with a brush what is the likelyhood that somebody is going to be getting to it with their eye? Happens, but not often.