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I am in Austin. I did a short test drive of about 30 feet and the brakes do stop the truck, which they didn't do on Monday so I'm kinda proud of my first mechanical effort on any piece of machinery. I would absolutely love some help. My main problem right now is that I need to move the truck...

rlwm, thanks for the detailed explanation. I will try that this evening. I didn't have a soldier b so to speak, I just had a stick that I wedged against the brake pedal. That is some redneck engineering!

Is there something that I did not do that the manual specifies? I used this one: T M 9 - 2 3 2 0 - 2 0 9 - 2 0 - 3 - 2

Filled reservoir to 1/2" from top, put cap back on and hose back in cap. It was wrench tight. Started with the master cylinder. Turned 3/4 of a turn or so until fluid came out. It came out for about three seconds or so with no air, so I turned it back to stop the flow, and then wrench...

Woops!! Don't know why I thought that was the fuel filter, and as my wife will attest, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Thanks for all the replies! For the brakes, dang, I'd like to get it to the shop for them to take a look. It is about 10 miles away. Previously the pedal was...

Two quick questions: 1) (First question has two parts) a) I bled the brakes and it was not incredibly hard. Tedious, sure, but not hard. The back left wheel had an issue where no fluid came out when I loosened the bleeding screw 1 full revolution. I continued, and it finally started coming...