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Bearing are amazing. #4 cap was reversed. I retorqued everything after plastigauging and applying assembly lube. I havent gotten to start the motor yet but so far, crisis averted.
 
I had this happen once, guy brought me an engine to install and he checked the rod bearings, he didn't mark the caps and just installed them randomly. Motor wouldn't turn over, I had to have all the rods resized. Is there any chance the rods were previously marked?
 
The rods on my 72 318 have very very clear numbering on the mains and rods. The numbering extends from the cap to the rod, and is only on the driver side.
 
All eight numbers to the drivers side?
I don't think that's right.
The numbers should be on the opposite side to the squirt holes and the squirt holes should be facing the opposite bank, to oil the cylinder walls there; that is to say towards the center of the engine.Factory type pistons, have offset piston pins. This was designed to reduce/eliminate piston noise.The factory type pistons are therefore installed in such a way that they are indexed to the engine front, and also indexed to the rods. If the piston tops have big-N-little eyebrows, they also have to be indexed to particular cylinders. If the indexing was carried out properly between the pistons and rods, but then installed backwards on the crank, that could create problems in the chambers.
So just be sure the squirt holes, if you got 'em,are correctly oriented.

If the engine has been running this way for many miles, without issue,Including piston noise, I might be tempted to put it back exactly the way I found it, cuz without taking the heads off there is no way of knowing the piston orientation.Unless you have access to a boroscope.
 
This motor was never opened before me. Only one cap was removed and reversed.

Now I could be wrong because i do not have a photographic memory but i am pretty sure i was laying under the steering box looking up when i indentified the rod numbering.
 
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