Hi, well where do I start with this one..I decided to replace the front flexi hoses as they were worn and chafed, simple job..not! Both brake pipes and their unions were seized and had to be replaced, so I did.

Then came bleeding the brakes, n/s/f bleed nipple snapped so I acquired another caliper and fitted new nipples to both front calipers, then bled. Car was briefly back on the road (brakes felt ok but not perfect) until I noticed the handbrake warning light (!). This is when I thought that air must have got into the system and that I should bleed the rear brakes to clean the system (needed fresh fluid anyway ).

....But then both rear cylinders were seized and both rear brake pipes were badly seized and fell apart. So 2 new cylinders and 2 new pipes, I shaped these and then installed them. BUT then the old cylinder leaked as I was removing it onto the shoes :bang: so time for new shoes

Finnnnaly I got the chance yesterday (only day off work) in the pouring rain to change the cylinders, then the shoes, go back to garage to get correct union (gave wrong one), then bleed the rears and bleed the fronts again! After 2-3 litres of fluid and lots of air they were finally bled!! :woot: Adjusted shoes up (although think right side needs adjusting again as is creaking slightly).

And it was back onto the road again and low and behold the warning light is still on but this time it is on constantly (apart from once when it went off 1 second?), unlike last time where it was more intermittent.

So I know this light can mean handbrake sensor but it seems too much of a coincidence, also the pads aren't any more worn than they were before and the fluid is full and completely bled.

Could it be a pad wear sensor because I got a different nsf caliper? Any help on this guys is appreciated?

P.s. Sorry for the newspaper article!

Equally likely that the contacts for the level sensor are malfitted. While you're in there, check the fluid level with the filter thingy out.

take brake master cylinder top off
with fingers carefully pull out the plastic filter
top up master cylinder
replace filter
replace cap

whats light doing now?

you did good by the way

Thanks for replies, should have said the first time I bled the front brakes I did remove the filter and then clean it in white spirits, then topped up..but some reason I forgot to do it when I re-bled the whole system.

Will do this tomorrow and report back when I can, hopefully is a simple fix like this otherwise I suspect it's a good idea to check the pad wear sensor? And their contacts.

Thanks for replies guys :thumbup:

KRaikkonenNo1 said:

Thanks for replies, should have said the first time I bled the front brakes I did remove the filter and then clean it in white spirits, then topped up..but some reason I forgot to do it when I re-bled the whole system.

Will do this tomorrow and report back when I can, hopefully is a simple fix like this otherwise I suspect it's a good idea to check the pad wear sensor? And their contacts.

Thanks for replies guys :thumbup:

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Does it have pad wear sensors...
Mine don't have them.. if it did they wouid more than likely be bridged or snipped by now.
They is not really needed.. less is best..

oldhammer said:

Does it have pad wear sensors...
Mine don't have them.. if it did they wouid more than likely be bridged or snipped by now.
They is not really needed.. less is best..

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From what I'm aware of there is a sensor on the nsf caliper? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, although tbh I'm not sure I've ever seen it, maybe s and b or fingers99 could shed some light?

KRaikkonenNo1 said:

From what I'm aware of there is a sensor on the nsf caliper? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, although tbh I'm not sure I've ever seen it, maybe s and b or fingers99 could shed some light?

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There is no sensors on calipers.
If it had wear sensors it wouid have wires on pads going upwards into a connector..

oldhammer said:

There is no sensors on calipers.
If it had wear sensors it wouid have wires on pads going upwards into a connector..

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Ahh maybe it doesn't then, fair enough..let's hope it just the reservoir filter then

Thanks.

Are you sure its not..ABS light flicker..
If so take hubs back off and clean the tip of the sensor etc.. these are magnet.

So if you disturb rear brakes... all that rust sticks to it..
Thus causing bad signal..

I mean drums not hubs.. edit.

Update: thought I'd update this to help people who may have similar issue.

Firstly, the brake fluid had gone since I filled up -- filter wasn't draining properly so fluid went down slowly while appearing full.

So I soaked the filter in spirits overnight and topped up with brake fluid today and re-inserted the filter and voila as simple as that, the light is off..very easy fix and actually quite silly of me to overlook it considering this has happened to me many times before. I just assumed it was filtering properly

lesson learnt

Thanks for the help guys!