I had my block, crank, rods, and pistons sent to the machine shop to bore, hone, pressure test, balance, clean, etc. I also had them spec all my bearing clearances.

Would they have already stretched my rod bolts when checking for bearing clearance? After getting everything back I noticed that ONE rod has the bearings in it. Maybe they only checked the one and just got all the same size for the rest?

 

Maybe you could call and ask?

 

Uh oh, thats a bad sign. If they were too lazy to check the other bearings, who knows what else they were too lazy to do.

If they used a dial bore gauge to check the clearance, there should be tiny "tracks" in the bearing surface. It may be harder to see on stock or OEM type bearings.