rebuilding my fe i have a questiion

Hi i just recently decided to rebuild my 390 for my 54 merc thats been on the back burner for a while.

well i had the engine apart for years now cause at one point i thought i was gunna abandon the 390 and put a sbc. so now i decided to dig around for this stuff and i found my main caps are all out of order.

my question is what do i do about it? if the crank is cut and i get new bearings does it matter? or do i have to bolt em on and send it to a machine shop and get them bored? i dunno

thanks

Jay

The caps are numbered and have an arrow pointing to the front.

ive seen the arrow and and they all have C2AE stamped on them. where is it numbered?

On the top of the cap by the arrow.

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Originally Posted by techinspector1

On the top of the cap by the arrow.

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the only thing i find my the arrow is c and that circle casting and next to that is 2AE
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Usually there are marks from cap movement on the cap face and the block - try to match them up. Install them and see if you can feel a "step" or "edge" at the parting line

Look just below that center circle in the attached picture I see 3 dots,that would indicate #3