I don't know if you are doing the mains as well, but on engines after '47, egge doesn't provide shims for the mains. I mean you could purposely have the shop grind the crank so it doesn't fit and make it so you have to use shims. The bores in the mains are held to a + or - .0005" tolerance, the crank journals likewise, I saw no reason to use shims or even where I would put them for that matter. Not to mention the shim kit the machinist that was butchering my block ordered on my tab got, was one set of shims of around .013" for each bearing cap, I never did figure how that was supposed to work. I know someone will say that you can adjust them for wear. All I know is if you had a 100,000 miles on one of these engines it was nigh on a miracle. Whereas today no engine manufactured has shims, and you get at least 200,000 miles, if not more. My last two cars the transmissions died at around 180,000 miles with the engines running strong. Just sayin...
