W'ere going to have to agree to disagree on this. I too have been in
the car repair business for 40 years, and in that 40 years I have seen three broken
blocks, all Chevys from the seventies and early 80's that never had a strap to begin with.
That's not exactly a lot of instances in 40 years of working on cars all day long every day.
You would be much more likely to be struck by lightning than have it happen to you. I still
think it's caused by not tightening the bolts enough, either that or the block castings were
defective to begin with. One thing I know for sure......40 years from now if my car is still
around, the starter still will not have fallen off. If it was going to fail it would have done so by now.
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