'37 Flathead rebuild questions

[Kurt in NJ]

the marks on the rear bearing--is that where you put the plastigauge, it could be old hard plastigauge making an impression in the bearing

have the crankshaft journals beem measured for taper, out of round---I know from my working at learning to run a cranksahft grinding machine that a setup that works for a modern chevy crank can have taper in the wide bearing surfaces of a flathead crank---it also looks like there is dirt transfer between the cap and the block, perhaps you should clean more