Soft Brakes/Brake bleed

cdn121B to Mechanic Advice@gearhead.townEnglish · 11 months ago

Hey folks, 2012 GMC Sierra 1500. I swapped my drum brake wheel cylinders yesterday, one had a leak. Pulled the drums apart did the swap, put everything back together and then proceeded with a brake bleed. Built myself a bleeder bottle, turkey basted out some of the old fluid from the reservoir. Bled the brakes one at a time, put everything back together, wheels on and torqued, annnnd now I’ve got soft brakes. Back is drums, front is dics. I couldn’t crack the bleeder valve on the front left, so that one didn’t get done. I changed all of my brakes earlier this year and things have been absolutely fine, I just wanted to get ahead on some preventative maintenance. I’ll give myself an hour today to troubleshoot before I take it in (can’t afford any more time on it). What would be your order of operations to fix this?

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