Greetings, and a great New Year to all!

89 240 (221K) w/ AW-70 developed a bad tailshaft leak, so several months ago I replaced the seal but not the bushing ('cause I hate working under a car w/o a lift). Worked fine for a few months but started leaking again despite my best telepathic intervention. So I tried "Plan-B" which was to basically to ignore it and add some fluid when it started slipping. I was satisfied with that until I got sick of people beeping at me at stoplights trying to tell me my car was on fire as it billowed smoke from the fluid soaked exhaust pipes. So I finally relented and got the parts (seal, bushing and gasket) from the Volvo dealer, yeah, I was rocked for $55.00, but as you can probably tell from the post so far, my brain is tiny and I had to get the stuff while the thought was in mind and do the job before I lost interest. A just punishment I suppose.
It all seemed to go fine except I followed the general rule of the backyard mechanic which is, to put it back together exactly like it came apart, instead of the general rule of an actual mechanic which says that when a bearing has a hole in it, the hole probably lines up with an orfice that feeds it. Now, the old bearing was seated in a way that the hole was merely over solid casting and not adjacent to any orfice nor did it line up with the oil galleys on either side of the seat. I put the new bearing in oriented just as the old one was. It didn't occur to me till after it was all together that the bearing hole might require a proper alignment to a feed hole, and the old one may have spun. I didn't look for a feed and don't recall noticing any holes in the bearing seat when I cleaned the housing.

So here's my big question before I take it apart and do it over again, does this bearing indeed require any specific alignment or is it just splash fed?

BTW: I did try the 7/900 FAQ's several times but the pages just hung and wouldn't load

Thanks for any and all advice! (pertaing to the bearing, not my curbside manner!)

'89 Volvo 240, '76 BMW 2002. Formerly: '86 240 diesel, Two '71 1800e's, '83 BMW 530e