4.250 crank factory 340 block

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.

Yep sounds like things were poorly assembled. I agree that what you found was alarming and it's good you took it to another shop. I still don't see how 4 bolt caps will solve your issues though.

Good luck with it, let us know how it turns out.