Re: treadle vac brakes

Posted by Trog On 2012/5/25 16:54:34

Yes, three years later and I'm still driving the car and pulling back up on the brake pedal. Not long ago the same thing started happening to my '55 Patrician although not as bad. The brakes are good, so I live with it on both cars. IF everything were decently accessible rather than through the floorboard and jammed between steering columns and air ducts and what not, I would have tried to address it. It's enough "maintenance" on all four of my Packards ('53, two '55s, and the '56) in keeping the master cylinder reservoir topped off. ONLY have this problem with the Packards and not the Hudson or Nash with similar units. Hope you can diagnose and find the problem on the brake return and fix it on your '56 Clipper Deluxe. The no brake pedal return and fluid disappearance I just tolerate and keep on going.