Because from building other engines..... My experience with engines designed with three mains are a crap design, especially on a long crank such as the V8, if you rev the engine, which in a carrier (rightly or wrongly) people do, the crank will flex..... When it flexes it blows out main bearings and rod bearings.... Also it creates a failure point on the centre main journal and you get situations where the crank snaps inline with the centre main.
For what a centre strap costs, I am pondering with the question if it's worth doing ? belt and braces and all that. I was just curious to see if Ben had it done to his (being built by a pro)
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1942 Ford Universal Carrier No.3 MkI*
Lower Hull No. 10131
War Department CT54508 (SOLD)
1944 Ford Universal Carrier MkII* (under restoration).
1944 Morris C8 radio body (under restoration).
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