Drop forging crankshafts - video

[Frank S]

I once had to replace a steel crank from a Chrysler Marine 440 that was broken in two but still ran fine...

When mine broke it was because of dwell float on the Mallory duel point ignition I had, My distributor had a rotor that ran twin coils so 1 set of points fired 4 cylinders and the other fired the other 4 if the points slipped it throwed the timing off. Being young and dumb and way too full of hey listen to this as I went through the gate at the Army base In Germany, just after passing the guard shack I gouged on it from a good rolling start pulled the front wheels off the ground slightly then it backfired but kept running I got to where I was going and shut it off and that was the end had the vehicle towed over to the recreation crafts shop pulled the engine and replaced the crank after the new one arrived from the states The break was diagonal through the main which allowed the engine to keep running until I shut it off