I have a 98 Blazer 4WD, LT. I just replaced the front calipers and am trying to bleed the front brakes. I got fluid coming out of the drivers side but nothing comes out of the passenger side. I have both bleeders open, and doing a gravit bleed but again nothing dripping on the passenger side. The MC was never dry it always had fluid. Forgive me if this has been asked before. I searched and found nothing. Is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance for any help it is appreciated.

 

Have you tried the old method with one person slowly depressing the pedal? If there's sludge blocking the one side you might want to try closing the drivers side to force fluid to the passenger side. I actually use a vacuum system made from a pump designed to draw oil from my boat engine. I know they sell brake vacuums but this works and it was already laying around.

 

Well my son has Mity Vac pump that I tried but I can't suck any fluid out I just get air in the reservoir. I don't know where all the air is coming from unless I have a leak somewhere
but the brakes worked fine just noisy

 

I agree. When I've bled brakes, and I've done it A LOT lol, I've always done one by one starting from the one farthest from the reservior with someone doing a slow Pump Pump Press&Hold for 5ish seconds then release on the brake pedal. Normally I do it at least twice per line.

 

I do it very similar to chevyblazerchick..... But our chant is a little different at my place.

Guy in truck "One...Two...Three...Holding....."
Lucky guy under truck " Twist wrench...Spurt...bulbble...bubble...Twist wrench....Yell "Again!"

Guy in truck then repeats. I seem to always be the lucky one under the truck!

As I type this, the realization hits. Guy in truck is usually my Dad. Unfortunately as a few of you know, Dad is sick. Real sick. This is very unrelated, but dont take the guy in the truck pumping the peddle for granted. He might not always be there.

 

Well the reason i was not able to bleed the passenger side is that the hole was plugged where the bleeder screw threaded it. They were Morse rebuilt calipers and the hole was plugged. The caliper had a powder coating and maybe that's how the hole got plugged up ... odd. Never seen that before.

 

^That is weird

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Originally Posted by kristoph30

I do it very similar to chevyblazerchick..... But our chant is a little different at my place.

Guy in truck "One...Two...Three...Holding....."
Lucky guy under truck " Twist wrench...Spurt...bulbble...bubble...Twist wrench....Yell "Again!"

Guy in truck then repeats. I seem to always be the lucky one under the truck!

As I type this, the realization hits. Guy in truck is usually my Dad. Unfortunately as a few of you know, Dad is sick. Real sick. This is very unrelated, but dont take the guy in the truck pumping the peddle for granted. He might not always be there.

lolz I did only put two pumps in there didn't I... oh well it was like 4am lol. I used to be the gal in truck, now its my husband... lol. The Peddle Pumper is important and should definitely never be taken for granted.

 

Amen sister!

 

Build a one person brake bleeder for $2 and tell the person in the seat to go fix you something to drink to celebrate getting them done.

 

Well, arent you going to provide just a little more detail?