so i'm been having fun recently trying to find the corret way to bleed brakes. When i picked my car up from the local team they had bled the brakes and the pedal felt great, I had replaced both master cylinders and the brake pedal felt noticeably less spongey.
I'm seeing different people doing different things. There's a Tilton video on youtube saying that you must do one side of the car at a time, front + rear calipers. Other people are saying that if I just pressure bleed then I can just do 1 corner at a time using a dual-tube bleeder bottle.
But then i'm hearing that if i pressure bleed (i'm on my own) then that might not get air out the master cylinder so you do have to pump the pedal.
What do you guys do? and do you bleed the pressure sensors last?
I pressure bleed (solo) with a Motive bleeder using the Tilton adapter. The master cylinders are separate front and rear systems. So you would bleed the rears and then the fronts. The length difference from right to left rear brake line is so minimal I would not worry about which side I started with (same for the fronts). Remember to keep fluid in the Motive unit and fully flush both the inside and outside bleeders at each caliper. I have never had a problem bleeding brakes solo with the Motive unit. I bleed the pressure sensor last - it has a small set screw that has to come out completely (don't lose it - it is small!) to bleed but it only pushed a small amount of fluid out.
I suggest you flush the system fully each season (rather than simple partial bleeds between events) I had to replace my master cylinders because the old SRF fluid turned to gel in the MC reservoir but they were 12 years old and I think they were only bled and not ever totally flushed.
