Re: lightened flywheel
One thing that has not been explained as a reason for such a heavy flywheel is, Henry being the egotist he was, figured anyone buying a Model A would be a previous customer or a new car owner. That being said, previous customers would have been accustom to the Model T which had a planetary transmission and used a clutch pack which only worked in high gear. He used a heavy clutch so that you could just drop the pedal and not kill the engine and the car would go. This sounds horrible but if you had never used a single disk clutch with a sliding gear transmission, this would have been common.
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