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My neighbor watched me bleed my brakes and told me I was doing it in the worst possible order
I was doing a brake job on my 2004 Tacoma in the driveway on a Saturday and had already cracked the bleeder on the rear passenger side first, just going closest to farthest like I always did. My neighbor Dale, who used to wrench at a shop in Reno for 15 years, came over and said 'you're chasing air in circles, start at the master cylinder and work out or you'll be there all day.' I switched to that order, closest to the master first, and got a firm pedal in about 20 minutes instead of the hour I usually spend pumping and re-pumping. Does anyone else bleed closest-first, or am I the only one who had it backwards this whole time?
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the_sean4h ago
Man, hate to burst the bubble but the old rule isn't closest to the master, it's farthest from it. You got lucky, not fixed. Think about it: on most cars the master sits up high on the firewall, so the right rear is the longest line in the whole system. That's the one holding the most air, so that's the one you crack first. The sequence goes right rear, left rear, right front, left front, and yeah everybody argues about it. Dale might've been thinking of bench bleeding the master itself, which you do before it goes back in the truck. What probably helped you was just doing a full flush and not letting the reservoir run dry. Pedal feel doesn't lie though, so if it's firm, run it.
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