Without looking at the housing bore for that position and seeing what shape it is in would be hard to say. You have to consider the bearing set, the block housing bore and crank journal. All three are manmade and each have manufacturing tolerances that can allow fluxuations from one engine to the next and within the same engine. At this point it is irrelevant why, just dont put it back that way. That is why blueprinting is so critical to performance builds, it take a lot of the variations found in these components and eliminates them as best as it can be.
