new motor wont turn by hand.... offset rods?

[DJYoshaBYD]

ok... I just finished building a six bolt... the crank is standard size so I got standard bearings... I put it together, again.... now I cannot turn it by hand....

The only thing I notice about when we took it apart was that the "D" that is on the bottom of the rod cap was facing the back of the car... after I got new pistons back from getting them put on the stock rods, I noticed that when I put the pistons in with the mark facing the timing belts (like they should be) the "D" on the cap now faces towards the front of the car... I know that the cap is not on backwards because if the "D" is facing the back of the car there is a MAJOR lip in the bearings where they mate together....

My question is, if the machine shop put the rods on backwards, would this cause it to bind somewhere? Do our motors have offset rods? I know its not hitting anything because we checked with the motor open... nothing is hitting anything, the bottom end is just suuuppppeeerrr tite....

<<<< me beating my frustrations

 

[DJYoshaBYD]

anybody?

 

[95blackGsTurbo]

They don't really have offset rods but they caps and rods need to go in the same way as they came out. You are going to need to take them back to the machine shop and get the rods reinstalled. Should have told him which way they needed to go on when you took them. And no bumping your own thread.

 

[DJYoshaBYD]

i forgot they go back to the top...

but would that cause it to bind? Im going to take it apart again, but I want to make sure that is the problem before I go tear into the owner of the machine shop, like this >>>