i am rebuilding a motor too, and thanks to your post i rechecked my side clearances on my 3/4 rods cuz they were a little tight, and will be fixing that.
I used plastigage on all my bearings and every one came up tight. like one and half thous. i took the crank and the torqued rods with bearings in them to a machine shop and they verified i actually have 26thous. perfect! they also told me my crank had been turned to the low limit, which i was told, but they did verify it.