fatty, for the rest of us (ok, me), please do an oil sample and have Blackstone test it. If bearing wear is minimal and there appears to be no scoring, as fuer said, do it, the heck with plastiguaging.
One thing to be sure of though... there was a guy on the N54 threads that got a few undersized, yeah thicker, bearings that when he tried to turn the crank it would not turn. Even though the boxes were marked as the same size, the bearings within were different. He sorted it out before he put the oil pan back on. Something free in your effort, the likely leaky oil pan no longer will be.
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