Re: DO NOT TRUST BTV

Posted by phsnkw On 2009/11/25 11:21:21

After reading most if not all of the forums on this subject, I must ask this; Did Bendix or any one ever redesign the master cylinder? From reading it seems the trouble in the Treadle-Vac system all can be rooted back to the master cylinder. For a heavily produced piece of merchandise it seems odd that no-one ever thought to improve upon the original for 50 years. Granted if Bendix had it would have been in the late fifties and wouldn't be a dual master cylinder used widespread in the mid to late sixties and preferred now. It just seems weird to me that nothing else can bolt onto the vacuum unit. I had an old 63 Mercury Breezeway with a single master on it and when it gave out it was replaced with a dual unit. Bolted right onto the booster (which never worked). Just wondering.