[bettlesr]

When I had to change a piston on my original engine in the car when I bought it ('28 block), I checked all the bearings with plastigauge. I can only assume that the engine had been rebuilt earlier with the wrong type of babbitt. The plastigauge was intact and there was a groove in the babbitt where the plastigauge had dented it. Around a year or so later, the engine got a bad knock and had to be towed home. When I pulled the pan down, all the babbitt was in the pan.
After this, Schwalm's got the job of building me a HP engine in a '31 block