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Most of my pistons were installed but in checking the rod side clearance it was clear that something was wrong. The King XP rod bearings came in a box with two clear plastic trays, each containing 8 bearing halfs. No instructions were included so I just opened one tray and put a bearing into each rod and each cap. I was halfway through this when I noticed numbers 1 through 8 embossed into the bottom of each tray. Wait... were these supposed to indicate cylinder numbers? I'd never encountered that before.
This morning I called King Bearings and asked about this. It turns out that one tray was intended as "upper" bearing halfs and the other was "lower". The fellow at King pointed out a small "U" and "L" that were etched on the back of each piece. He agreed that they needed to include paperwork that pointed this out to a customer. Apparently he's had many questions about this before. Now to remove the bearings that I installed and put the right ones in their place. Arrrggghhh....
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ