'Brake fluid low' sensor - how to remove?

Feb 04, 2006 2 Replies

Having discovered, when a wheel-cylinder sprang a leak, that this sensor/switch now fails to indicate near-total loss of fluid, I find that it's far from obvious how to remove it from the top of the 'Bendix'-marked header-tank on my '98/'99 Peugeot 306. (The warning-light does come on when the plug is removed from the sensor-head and the plug-contacts are bridged, i.e. the wiring, etc., is OK)



The externally-visible bit, with the socket, appears to be a single piece of quite soft/flexible brown plastic - I doubt that it could be bonded onto the hard polythene-like material of the tank, but there's no visible access to e.g. nuts/screws.



It can't simply screw in, 'cos the sideways-protruding socket wouldn't clear the tubular 'feature' of the tank-top onto which the filler-cap screws.



Maybe it's a 'bayonet'-type fitting, but



- it's *very* resistant to turning, even a little, in either direction



- I'm reluctant to apply more brute force while ignorant of how, if at all, it's supposed to come off ...


After having * proper * screw off caps for all my previous cars, I find that my *new* ie R-reg, has a clip-on cap so its opened like a shampoo bottle!

It's not a Pug, so be gentle in case I'm wrong

Thanks for the suggestion, but you seem to have misunderstood my question.

Unlike many (including my previous 309), the level-sensor is not fitted to the filler cap: it's mounted separately on the 'Bendix' header-tank-top, less than an inch away from a normal/'proper' screw-on filler-cap.

the sensor couldn't be meant to unscrew 'cos its connector-socket sticks out sideways more than this ...

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