Brake pedal travel

steve h; your nearly there,when your sure of all the air is out of the system,have somebody squeeze the brake pedal down at a steady rate and as they are doing this nip up the bleeder valve.make sure they are not at the end of the brake pedal travel.this should get you out of trouble,cheers!

Almost certainly you still have an air bubble in the caliper, this due to the lack of "turbulance" during the bleeding process.
One way to try and dislodge the air is to pump up the pressure, then open the nipple while there is pressure on the pedal and with the engine running.
May have to try this several times, as sometimes the air bubbles can be quite "sticky".
If this fails then a pressure bleeder is required.

Steve

I have just been wondering how a leaking brake hose can cause a caliper to stay on. The only way that can happen is (1) there is still hydraulic pressure acting on the caliper piston after you take your foot off the pedal or (2) the piston is partially or completely seized or (3) if you have a floating caliper, the two halves may not be sliding freely on their locating pins or slides.

Seized calipers are very common, particularly when cars get a few years and ks up on them. It might not be a bad idea to check yours because you might have two problems and a new hose has only fixed one of them.

Brian

If you have an extra 50mm pedal travel since you changed the hose, and assuming you did nothing else, then you definitely have a problem that MUST be rectified. You most probably have air in the system and the only way to get it out is to bleed all the brakes lines and you DO NOT need the engine running to do this simple task. ALWAYS start at the the wheel furtherest away from the master cylinder and have someone pump the pedal and hold foot pressure on it while you open the bleeder at that wheel. Best to use a ring spanner on the bleeders as they "round off" easily and if they are very tight be careful not to break them off. Also if you attach a short length of clear plastic tubing that fits snug over the bleeder you can drain the fluid into a container and also can see if any air bubbles come out of the system. As you do each wheel top up the master cylinder and DO NOT let it run out of fluid or more air will get in to the system. The last wheel you do will be the one closest to the master cylinder and if you follow this process you will get all the air out. It has worked for me for the last 42 years.