I agree, don't matter. You do it so big ends don't get mixed up. Nothing to do with measurements, just convenience. But still when new, I always put 1 on 1 , etc. But yall right, rod and crank don't know, like Frank first said if you're reusing them and the bearings then they need to go back where they came. That's why we always put 1 on 1 etc. Just made sense, Honda didn't number 1-4 for sure. So any rod can go on any of the rod journals I agree, now the $64,000.00 question, no not with BabyFace, but the real question is what pieces aim going to use. Thinking of the stroker crank on bottom pic with the RC steel rods off of the middle crank in pics, Bill