Re: Bendix Treadle Vac Study- Serioius Business!!

Posted by HH56 On 2010/12/13 19:16:53

Probably not a bad idea but not sure how you'd do one and still be able to fill in that location without it being a major pain. The airtight membranes I have seen have been under a large removable cover held on with the various clips. Maybe you could form something cylindrical along the line of a glove finger or bellows and sealed to the bottom of cap. That could protrude down into the fluid and still be flexible to allow for expansion and level changes yet still come out with cap for filling and checking. Fred has mentioned possibly making an electronic level indicator, so perhaps a membrane could be incorporated with that.

IMHO, if a Packard period accessory remote fill kit were to be reproduced, it would probably even sell to the purists. Have a fill cover for the BTV and another, if different, for the manual setup. I think a thin flat accordion type membrane could probably be incorporated into that which would be out of sight under the lid. As many of us are approaching geriatric status, the kit would make life so much easier and for all of us, there would not be too many excuses for not noticing the fluid level disappearing.