Re: Bendix Treadle Vac Study- Serioius Business!!

Posted by fred kanter On 2011/1/4 0:13:36

During the time Nader wrote his book, the mid-60's, we were very involved in the Packard business and were driving BTV equipped cars as daily drivers. We were not aware of any unusual failure problem with BTV's on Packards or any of the muitiple other makes using BTV's

In this forum there was a report of the relatively quick failure of a unit twice after rebuild. This was not common to my knowledge on units rebuilt in the 60's or on the units we rebuilt on our own cars.

I suspect that Nader did not report on BTV Packard failures or on the numerous other makes because they were not failing at an unusual rate. Keep in mind that manual master cylinders have been failing since the late 20's when they were introduced, again not at an unusual rate.