I am not sure I can agree with the 465's having weak, soft cranks. I have found them to be very hard and durable. The White motors are used in farm tractors, and I know of turned up tractors that have run for years with them. I have taken cranks out of used engines, and found them to still be in spec. We had a motor that had the rubber in the vibration damper messed up, causing the crank to develop harmonics and get the textbook example break through the cheek area between a main and rod bearing. The truck was driven over 300 miles this way, with no further damage happening. We checked out the motor, and we can take out the broken crank and replace it with another crank, new bearings, and go. The broken ends stayed butted together under power and did no damage to anything else. The only way we caught it was a rapid fluctuation on the oil gage and noticing the motor noise changed slightly with the clutch down. (quieter)