Re: ANOTHER #%*!:( BTV failure
Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2010/10/9 23:14:53
I don't have much to add to these great answers, but I was thinking along the lines of a "modern" master cylinder on the firewall, since a switch from Ease-A-Crash to manual brakes would be patently non-original, so why stop there--except if it could be better-hidden as with the underfloor unit. Heck, you could probably slap the old molded-rubber "Ease-A-Matic" brake pad onto a '55 and hide the switch even better. Wonder why they did away with that bit of in-car advertising in '56-- already having troubles, maybe?
Being that my interest is hypothetical and maybe "aesthetic" more than a practical engineering reality, I can just add that much.
Sorry I missed the earlier posts dealing with retro-fits -- I thought I had read through the whole thread. My bad.
Seems there is a lot of knowledge about BTV on PackardInfo that hasn't cross-pollinated yet. There are also other threads on this issue, but nothing really seems to have pulled the topic together. Is this another opportunity for a replacement-oil-pump-type thread that could get to an eventual recommended fix?
Things that make 'em stop, in my book, are vastly more important than things that make 'em go-- which is why I have a strict policy to never mess with brake work on my vehicles. It's just a bit too scary for me, as are steering repairs, for the same reasons.
One sort of reverse-engineering thought on the BTV that I might add is based on a statement I recall from, I believe, an earlier thread, The poster said that the "Treadle-Vac" setup was used widely on other cars of the era. I wonder if the same problems existed for those cars as they aged, and if any fixes have been found by collectors of these other makes?
Wouldn't it be nice if the answer was already "out there?" Nah, not as much fun.
Being that my interest is hypothetical and maybe "aesthetic" more than a practical engineering reality, I can just add that much.
Sorry I missed the earlier posts dealing with retro-fits -- I thought I had read through the whole thread. My bad.
Seems there is a lot of knowledge about BTV on PackardInfo that hasn't cross-pollinated yet. There are also other threads on this issue, but nothing really seems to have pulled the topic together. Is this another opportunity for a replacement-oil-pump-type thread that could get to an eventual recommended fix?
Things that make 'em stop, in my book, are vastly more important than things that make 'em go-- which is why I have a strict policy to never mess with brake work on my vehicles. It's just a bit too scary for me, as are steering repairs, for the same reasons.
One sort of reverse-engineering thought on the BTV that I might add is based on a statement I recall from, I believe, an earlier thread, The poster said that the "Treadle-Vac" setup was used widely on other cars of the era. I wonder if the same problems existed for those cars as they aged, and if any fixes have been found by collectors of these other makes?
Wouldn't it be nice if the answer was already "out there?" Nah, not as much fun.
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