It almost sounds like the cap was on backwards whn they line honed it. What happens if you disregard the placement of the bearing tangs and put the cap on backwards?
Yup had the same thought. when it is installed backwards, have the same clearance issues but is much tighter or harder to turn and the crank has to shift the other direction to allow the cap to be installed.
Either this bearing shell was built wrong........or the factory machined the cap wrong.........Either way, if i can get the cap to shift, its all right.
Some one suggested that it my be the wrong cap aka off of another eng. it my be but, now that its line bored it family. just got to get it to get along with the block.
Do you thing it's a bad idea to oval the hole???
What would you do in this situation???