This was fine as long as:<br /><br />The oil preasure was allowed to build first and you had oil coming out of "all" the push rods before you started to turn the engine over. And even then you should just rotate the assembly about a quarter turn and then prim again. Do this about four times and thats good. I think maybe the priming procedure was at fault. Many do not prime long enough. Usually it will knock out a main though. If the rod was bent, I would think that the engine would have become tight as you assembled it. Ill tell you from experience that it doesnt take much. I was assembling an engine one time and when I torqued one of the Rod caps down, it froze the engine. I removed the cap and could see a shiney spot on the bearing. I looked at the crank and it was good, and then I took the bearing out of the rod and under the bearing was a tinny little nick, I mean you could barely feel it. I smoothed it off with some emery paper and things went fine from there. It was a budget rebuild so we didnt resize the rods which I normally do.
