Even less reason to worry if not boosted. Online there are plenty of people selling their turbos and superchargers so they can buy a different motor after they blew one up, I'm not going to be one of them. I'm sure I could install a kit with no problems, but I DON"T know enough to keep from blowing an engine up after I installed one. I'm not afraid to admit I don't know squat about turbos and superchargers, but I know enough that I should not own one.
Tell her to get back into the kitchen and make you dinner! We got manly things to discuss. Jk. Out of curiosity how in the hell did you break a crankshaft? That is the first one I've ever heard of snapping without a blower hanging off the end of it. Also don't worry about doing that again. Lol. Plenty of ways to have catastrophic carnage but snapping a crank is unlikely.
From what I have read some stock 5.0 blocks develop cracks in the block, once that happens the bearings start to walk and all of a sudden with really no warning the crank snaps. Mine blew out the front of the timing cover, destroyed the block, twisted rods, bent the dist. shaft, snapped timing chain, bent the oil pan. Mine started running warmer, not hot and overheating just warmer than it should have been, I changed out water pump, thermostat, all the hoses, bought new spring for lower hose, blew everything out with air and it all seemed OK so I assumed the stock gauge was going bad, it never made any noise until it made a LOUD noise when it broke. I've talked to at least 10 other guys that have had the same thing happen, the crank broke almost exactly like mine did, luckily I was pulling out of a restaurant doing maybe 15mph when it broke.
When I divorced my ex she said she was going to take the Mustang from me........I asked her if she really thought she would live long enough to drive it? After that she didn't want it anymore, we'll never know how serious I was about it, but I think she believed !LOL @ wife aggro
My car has been the root of a few divorce discussions as well.
Some people have said the harmonic balancer was what started it but mine seemed fine, I trashed the one from that motor just in case. I talked with an engine builder that was throwing away blocks because he was finding cracks in them, all in the same spot between #2 and #3 cyld. I must have had a bad block, or a lot of balancers are going bad.
