Last weekend I did a front brake job on my parents' 00 Tundra, including an upgrade to the 05-06 MY 231mm front calipers, and now the truck has remained stuck in my driveway all damn week because I cannot get the system to bleed fully. I've bled all four corners at least a half dozen times at this point, tried both the old fashioned way and with my Mityvac, even built a garden sprayer pressure bleeder this morning. All to no avail. Master never went dry or anything.
Pumping the pedel a few times builds just a hint of pressure, and the rear brakes do seem to be functioning at least to some extent taking it up and down the driveway, but the fronts don't seem to be giving anything at all. I'm seeing clean fluid and no bubbles out of the bleeders and no leaks anywhere that I can detect. The caliper swap seems to be a relatively common upgrade and I haven't heard of others having issues like this as a result of it.
So wtf? I'm beyond frustrated at this point and want the thing out of my driveway. Any thoughts, ideas, or tricks for me? Air in the ABS system maybe?
Do the rears have drums or maybe discs with hydraulic drum parking brakes? If those are way loose you’ll get the symptoms you described. I’ve had it happen with a Chevy truck. Adjusted the rear drums and the pedal firmed right up.
dhof
New Reader
11/18/18 12:21 p.m.
Since you did calipers, make sure the caliper wasn't installed upside down, i did that once and car didnt bleed.
When you crack the bleeder is there steady fluid coming into the hose you attached to bleeder?
Also how long was the brake line unattached for? Possible air in AbS unit?
Is there a specific order to bleed toyota calls for? If not did you bleed furthest from the MC first.
Did you reuse the crush washers? I did that just once.
In reply to dhof :
E36 M3, we might have a winner, I think they are upside down. I did think to myself it was stupid of them to put the bleeder on the bottom, never occurred to me that that might indicate they were upside down 
I'll flip them, bleed again, and see what happens, but first I need to eat something and warm up a bit.
That indeed fixed it. Thanks everyone!
dhof
New Reader
11/18/18 3:16 p.m.
Been there done that lol, frustrating,atleast its an easy fix.
I won't admit to doing that. Nope, I won't.
Your brakes - "I ain't got time to bleed."
