Bell-housing alignment help

What if the block was align honed/bored, putting the crank higher off the centerline? Would that be the direction your off?
that makes perfect sense, but he claims he needs to move the b/housing straight DOWN. Now, I would say he's maybe misreading the +/- direction of his dial indicator(it's very easy to do), but he put in offset dowels, and it moved the correct direction, so....