Fred Kanter wrote: Quote:
So please explain why yoiu (sic) state that we "claim" to sell DBK's?
We can supply them, if you have inofrmation (sic) to the contrary please provide same. If not, I request you apologize as appropriate.
I never said that Kanter does not now sell disc brake wheel kits. I was only interested feedback from users. If someone won't pay your asking price, that's a personal decision and certainly no reflection on your DBK's quality or fitment.
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On the Bendix Treadle Vac (BTV) issue. We have sold over 15,000 BTV rebuild kits for about 8 makes of cars, I would guess that Bendix provided over 5 million units as original equipment between 1952 and 1960. If they were as dangerous as is claimed in this forum then there would have been a huge number of very bad accidents over the years and the weakness of the of the unit would be well documented while those vehicles were used as regular transportation.
A well rebuilt unit is as good as when it was new
There are many, many reports of BTV failure in various modes, so if you haven't heard of them, then
"What we have here is a failure to communicate." (Strother Martin in
Cool Hand Luke) Most recently, Kevin's newly restored 55 400 with professionally rebuilt BTV failed completely. Last year, Mat's 56 Carib went off the road and smashed up the front end after his BTV failed. I personally know of over a dozen Packard owners who have experienced BTV failure. For myself, I experienced 4 failures on 4 different professionally rebuilt units before I gave up and engineered a modern dual master replacement.
Rather than berate some posters here who complain about BTV failure, I suggest that you and your company get actively involved in finding out
WHY BTVs fail or better yet, develop a
bolt-on replacement based upon a modern dual MC and booster.
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