How to make sure a character lives while morphing

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For my Bleach RPG, characters will morph into a built model upon spawning. Some of these models include having largely sized limbs and Torso's. Since I'm resizing the limbs to morph the character, each Motor in the Torso will temporarily have a Part1 of nil. In order to counter this, I first anchor the limb and then store the value of Part1 as an ObjectValue and then after it's finished resizing it will set the Part1 back to it's correct value.

My problem is, there are many cases in which the player will spawn and instantly die; probably since it cannot reconnect the limbs together quickly enough. It works fine it Play Solo, but the character only lives 2 out of 3 times in server mode.

Extra information: The welds C0 and C1 aren't defined in the morph script; there's a localscript (animation) that will be pasted into the character that sets the C0 and C1 if the Morph-To body is different from the typical Roblox body.

01--userdata char - This is the player's character model.
02--userdata model - This is the model that char will morph into.
03 
04--Clears character appearance
05for _,v in pairs(char:GetChildren()) do --Anchor the character before resetting welds
06    if v:IsA("BasePart") then
07        v.Anchored = true
08    end
09end
10for _,v in pairs(char:GetChildren()) do
11    for _,x in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
12        if x:IsA("Motor6D") then
13            Instance.new("ObjectValue",x).Value = x.Part1
14            x.Part1 = nil
15            --Stores the Part1 value inside of the player's limb weld
16            --Right Shoulder would store Right Arm
17            --Left Hip would store Left Leg
18            --And etc.
19        end
20    end
21end
22--Changes Body Colors
23for _,v in pairs(model:GetChildren()) do
24    local part = char:findFirstChild(v.Name)
25    --If a part in the model has the same name as a part in the character.
26    --For instance, Right Arm or Torso
27    if v:IsA("BasePart") and part then
28        --Makes the properties of the part in the character
29        --mimic the same properties of the part in the model
30        part.Size = v.Size
31        char:MakeJoints()
32        part.TopSurface = "Smooth" --Only because I like smooth surfaces
33        part.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
34    elseif true then
35        --Adds extra little details to the character.
36        --Stuff like masks, eyes, or wings.
37        --Ultimately, not the problem here.
38    elseif v:IsA("LocalScript") and char:findFirstChild("DefaultAnimation") then
39        --if the model contains a localscript, then we want to replace
40        --the character's current animation script with this new localscript.
41        char.DefaultAnimation:Destroy()
42        v:clone().Parent = char
43    end
44end
45for _,o in pairs(char:GetChildren()) do
46    if o:IsA("BasePart") then
47        for _,v in pairs(o:GetChildren()) do
48            if (v:IsA("Weld") or v:IsA("Motor") or v:IsA("Motor6D")) and v:findFirstChild("Value") then
49                local part1 = v.Value.Value
50                v.Part1 = part1
51                v.Part1.Anchored = false
52                v.Part0.Anchored = false
53                v.Part1 = part1
54            end
55        end
56    end
57end
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