UPDATE June 21: My second trip for bearings to the NAPA store was a failure. They shipped me bearings that were wrong AGAIN! I got my money back and went online to find bearings. That was a failure as well as I couldn't get anything to ship sooner than July 7. Desperate to do the build while the kids are here, I turned to autozone. Amazingly, not only did they have the bearings in the store and in stock, but they were only $26 (for the same Clevite77 bearings NAPA was charging me $42). Even better, I had earned $10 on my Autozone store card and so the final cost for the bearings was only $17. —–
June 20th .. I was all ready to assemble the engine when I discovered the Main bearings didn't fit correctly. After examining them more carefully, I discovered they didn't work at all. The 'tang' was in the wrong location as was the oil hole.
This morning, I took the bearings back to the NAPA store. After a discovery process of about 20 minutes we finally concluded I got the correct bearing box, but the box had tractor bearings rather than buick v-6 bearings. So, my new bearings should be here tomorrow morning. Because of this, the engine build has been delayed until monday (when the kids are back).