Re: ANOTHER #%*!:( BTV failure
Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2010/10/14 22:54:52
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Great post, Brian
I'm happy that my semi-informed, unread posting style has resulted in your well-informed, well-read response. (I wear the semi-informed label with pride, y'know -- however I object to being called "unread," as that's one of the things I lernt best at school, and don't ever call me a half-assed mechanic, because I'm almost three-quarters-assed almost all the time.)
Brian, the rest of your post goes on to talk about the extent of the research that would be required to find an engineering drawing and/or more detailed parts information on the BTV as installed in the Packard, and I have complete faith in your ability to accomplish this. However, I will also try to contribute some of my usual semi-information on the subject.
BH wrote:
In fact, a Wagner Lockheed Power Brake Replacement Parts catalog from 1960 shows that the same minor repair kit, P/NA FC26869, fits the following models:
58 Mercury (late)
54 Nash Ambassador 60
53-57 Oldsmobile 88, 98
52-56 Packard
53-56 Pontiac
That those vehicles all use the exact same minor kit to service the hydraulic section strongly suggests that the BTV used in the Packard was NOT of an exclusive design.
Major overhaul kits are a whole 'nuther matter; only the 55-56 Pontiac uses the same major kit as the 55-56 Packard. That would seem to indicate that most of the differences lie in the vacuum section.
Great post, Brian
I'm happy that my semi-informed, unread posting style has resulted in your well-informed, well-read response. (I wear the semi-informed label with pride, y'know -- however I object to being called "unread," as that's one of the things I lernt best at school, and don't ever call me a half-assed mechanic, because I'm almost three-quarters-assed almost all the time.)
Brian, the rest of your post goes on to talk about the extent of the research that would be required to find an engineering drawing and/or more detailed parts information on the BTV as installed in the Packard, and I have complete faith in your ability to accomplish this. However, I will also try to contribute some of my usual semi-information on the subject.
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