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Jack Shaft · 08-07-2020, 09:45 PM

During A engine development all the engineers involved with the work identified the torsional vibration,Harold Hicks had the temerity to bring it up to Mr Ford,who was a proponent of the heavy flywheel compensating for the issue..the engineers finally 'won' in '32,a mechanical advance distributor,larger crankshaft journals and later a counterbalancing addressed the issue..
Benson Ford research center oral histories..right from the horses mouth..

08-07-2020, 09:45 PM	#17
Jack Shaft BANNED Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 1,196	Re: Lightened Flywheel During A engine development all the engineers involved with the work identified the torsional vibration,Harold Hicks had the temerity to bring it up to Mr Ford,who was a proponent of the heavy flywheel compensating for the issue..the engineers finally 'won' in '32,a mechanical advance distributor,larger crankshaft journals and later a counterbalancing addressed the issue.. Benson Ford research center oral histories..right from the horses mouth..