How to bleed brakes on a car?

Except that now, despite the new pads all around, the brake pedal still feels spongy and low. You need to bleed your brakes. Air-Cooled. Here's what happened. The pads wore so thin that the brake fluid level dropped too low in the master cylinder reservoir. An air bubble or three got pumped into the lines. read more

If your vehicle has squishy-feeling brakes, the way to get the air out of the lines is to bleed the brakes. To do the job, you need either a brake bleeder wrench or a combination wrench that fits the bleeder nozzle on your vehicle, a can of the proper brake fluid, a clean glass jar, and a friend. read more

To bleed car brakes, suck the old brake fluid out with a turkey baster and refill it with new fluid. Loosen the bleeder valves and attach plastic tubing to the bleeder bolt, placing the other end into a bottle filled with 1-2 inches of brake fluid. read more