Re: New Twist on Brakes-Check it out

Posted by HH56 On 2012/11/16 13:34:43

One question I have is did these BTVs originally fail with the same frequency as they seemingly do now?

A good question. I don't think they did fail back in the day or so many mfgs would not have used them as long as they did. But----there seems to have been several mfgs that used them, changed to something else, went back and then changed again. Question is why the continual changing. Was it problems or supply.

If you peruse several of the other forums for cars that used them, there is almost the same disdain and reports of failures today that we have. Again, the question is why -- faulty rebuild parts, incomplete or improper rebuilds with the rebuilder not understanding what needs to be changed out or something like a non available pitted casting suddenly dying because of old age ?????

It is too bad not many took advantage of Fred's offer so he could get a picture of failures. The one thing that struck me was the report of silicone used on one -- supposedly by a proper rebuilder. To me that is strictly not kosher. If one in an extremely limited sampling was found, how many are there like that in reality?