Stop in for a cup of coffee

Im gonna.
We already know about my 318 with the poly crank and i found a greaseball donor crank.
Assuming crank is std,and a couple close measurements with a machinist micrometer i determined donor crank is stock and pristine.
Order bearing set. No go, a week maybe.
Look close at bearings,(no bashing as its just a runner)going to move them to nicer block.

Cleaning parts, moved parts over carefully placing everything as it came out of donor.
Crank torqued up, rolls smooth.
Start moving bearings,and snugging them up. Rod/pistons remain with each respective block.
Torquing rods (45) and turning crank as i go.
Get rods torqued and after sitting a few minutes it stuck.
Very little to no side play between rods.
So my next step is to move connecting rods from donor to good block.

Connecting rods smaller id from one block to other? One more day of stoopid hooman tricks tomorrow. Make up a jig for pushing piston pins i guess...
I had something similar on a Pontiac 400 engine I built a long time ago. I bought it all machined and ready to be assembled. When I got all the rods torqued down it was stuck with little clearance between rods. I spent a dozen hours measuring the rod widths until I came up with a combo of locations that gave me the correct clearance between them on each journal. Once I got it together, that engine ran great for over 100k miles.

I never appreciated before that the tolerances on the rod ends was wide enough that they weren’t interchangeable and needed to be paired correctly. That included the rod caps too.