My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

Mains are Cummins bearings, the rods are IPD. It didn't happen on first start, but I know now when it did - randomly over the course of the first few months running it

I had 2 or 3 times where it didn't crank the first time turning the key. I thought maybe the starter had a dead spot, or bad connection in the ignition switch, because the 2nd time it would fire right up.

I had correct side play on the rods, it turned over freely (before the head was on and it had compression), so what does that leave me with, either incorrect bearing clearance or bad rod? Or - Without having the head off yet, I can't say for certain, but I think #2 was one that had impingement for a bad/leaky injector when I finally did them all this summer.

Maybe I'm way off, but my thoughts along the way was the bad injectors were leaking down on shutoff and causing hydro lock?