4.250 crank factory 340 block

rmchrgr said

I wonder what the symptoms were and why it was pulled apart? I'd like to hear the explanation of how installing 4 bolt main caps will solve uneven bearing wear. Sorry O.P. to sidetrack here, just curious. Maybe it will be pertinent.

And yeah, carnage sucks if it's its yours but this is the internet, we want blood.

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I apologize, I had explained the whole sorted story to moper in a pm. The build has seemed to be cursed from the start. Long story short I pulled the pan to repair a rear main seal leak the the original builder failed to fix in two previous attempts. After pulling it apart I see why. There was no crunch at the ends of the seal. The seals didn't extend past the surface of the block or the cap. A gob of silicone was his fix. Anyway while the pan was off I decided to pull a few caps and see how things were. That's when I saw in my words striped bearing surfaces. Like a candy cane in a way. That's when I loaded it up and took it to a different shop. I'm basically starting from scatch. Cylinders are out of square and out of round. The registers on the caps were loose had the wrong style bearing. The list goes on. Thanks to the previous shop I now have wasted a lot of coin and I can't afford $2500 for another block plus the new machine work needed. Just tryin to get what I have back together.