Boy, the search function on here works very well. Found lots of info regarding things I'd wondered about the last several weeks after tearing down these 6's I have.
I had found 2 good forged cranks & 1 repairable and one cast. I miked up one of the forged & ordered standard bearings about 2 weeks ago. This morning I went ahead & resized & assembled the rod caps, checked with bore mike & looks like I will be .0015 which I'm comfortable with. I then put #1 main in, miked it & also .0015, clearance. When I went to unbolt the cap I noticed (should have seen it in the first place!) the bearings don't line up from block to cap. Little difficult to mike but it's about .095 off. I grabbed an old & bearing, installed it in the cap & it lined up perfect. Then I looked at the bearings & sure enough, the locating tang is in a different location, about .095 different! Other than that, the bearings are identical width, radius, length, oil hole, etc.
Did I get the wrong bearings here or ??? I understood the cast crank mains were narrower but these bearings are exactly the same width, (1.032, I think) as the ones I took out, just located differently. I checked the thrust bearing on block & cap & it locates perfectly.
Thank you very much in advance for any assistance on this.
