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Originally Posted by Fabito
My dad helped me bleed the master cylinder, however the instructions were pretty vage when it came down to the end.
Unhook the likes
Press the pedal slowly
When the pedal is down, block the line holes and release the pedal.
repeat.
However, when do you hook the lines back up? while the pedal is down? or when the pedal is up? I hooked them up after we released the pedal.
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If you did what the above tells me you did, you actually unscrewed the brake line flex hoses at each wheel, or completely removed the bleeder screws? The procedure is to turn the bleeder screw on the caliper just enough to allow fluid/air in the line to 'squirt' out as the pedal is depressed, then immediately tighten it in to close it. You're trying to pump all the air out of the lines/calipers/master cylinder (air can be compressed) and replace it with brake fluid (which doesn't compress, transferring pressure from the master cylinder pistons to the caliper pistons).
Edit: OK, I read the procedure you quoted, and noticed that they start by giving instructions on bleeding the master cylinder
in the case where the fluid level had dropped below minimum, allowing air into the master cylinder. Did you undo the lines at the master cylinder first, before bleeding at the wheel cylinders?
