Land Rover Repair: Crankshaft bearing sizes, british engines, shop operator


Question
I am very new to automotive repairs and hope you can enlighten me with some information. The first under-size bearings for most American and British engines is referred to as 0.010 in the repair manuals. Does this mean 0.010" will be ground off from the crankshaft journals plus a further clearance between the bearing shells and the crank pin journals? How will the machine shop operator know the amount of metal to be ground off the journals or do we have to provide him with the original dimension of the crank pin journals in the first place if the engine is new to him?

Answer
The Land Rover workshop manual gives the correct diameter of the crank journals when new.  A set of bearings .010 larger will require him to grind the crank .010 smaller than new for proper fit.  He should get all the info needed from the workshop manual for whatever year truck you are woking on