Beginning to put this 7MGE Toyota engine together, looking at the factory manual - the only instructions as far as installing the bearing caps, which includes the thrust washers on #4 is "install bearing caps", and then advises to check end play.
However, none of these caps have any way to precisely align them with the upper halves in the block - no alignment pins or the like. I see there's a small amount of side to side variance as to where they could potentially end up since the bolt doesn't completely fill the hole in the cap, which seems might not be so crucial with most of the caps, but on the #4 with the thrust washers, it would seem you'd want both halves to be precisely flush with each other to present a completely uniform surface to the thrust bearing area on the crank.
On an eyeball basis, where the #4 cap and thrust washers ends up seems to have little or no possibility for variance simply because of the snug fit with the thrust surface on the crank and looks like it's aligned with the upper half (i.e. the block half) on either side. Is this good enough?
Thanks.