I had an "A" series crank break across the web at the flywheel end.
I was in my Frogeye Sprite going on holiday and it started knocking between Penzance and Lands End so I returned to Penzance and spent a day on my back in a gravel car park. I checked the top end - all ok so decided to drop the sump, pulled the big end shells, hitching to Redruth and return, to get new shells. I then washed as best I could in the sea, stayed in a B & B (making the pillow filthy despite 3 hair washes). Then I put it back together and started it up - it still knocked.....so I went surfing for three days and tried to nurse it home........gave up in Cambourne, spent a day in a garage - pulled the Sprite engine out and apart to find the two piece crank!! then getting a SH crank out of a scrap engine and putting it in the Sprite.
