Well today I finally pulled the front main bearing cap to see if what I thought had happened did happen. My "dumb" mechanic messed up, he installed the botton front main shell in the top saddle in the block. For those of you who do not know all four of the main bearings have an oil hole in both the upper and lower bearing shell except for the number one main which only has the oil hole in the upper shell that goes in the block and not the cap. Now when you install the shell without a hole in it no oil goes to the main or the number one rod bearing. The damage is not as great as I first thought. The number one bearing surface on the crank looks good and the number one rod journal polished out but is .0015 out of round as best as I can read the mic. I have to set the mic and then remove it so that I can read the scale. The mic will open up while removing from the journal. The bad part of all of this is that the "dumb" mechanic is me.
