Hi everybody, first time poster although I've browsed the site for help in the past.
While DIY'ing the 60K maintenance on our '12 TDI Lux I seem to have botched something when attempting the brake flush. I was doing the flush via a vacuum bleed using a Mityvac. I started by sucking out the old fluid from the master cylinder reservoir and replacing that with clean fluid. I then proceeded to vacuum fluid from the front passenger caliper. As I was evacuating that line I was expecting fluid to start draining from the reservoir which it didn't. The brake system at this point was, for all practical purposes depressurized and the car disabled. I tried to do the normal 2 person pressure bleed but no fluid was being pushed through the system nor was anything draining from the reservoir. I was told that I had to bleed the calipers in a specific sequence starting with the rear passenger caliper. I tried that as well, first vacuum bleed (which did produce fluid until it ran dry), then pressure bleed which produced nothing.
Aside from having the car towed to a dealership, what can I do here? What did I miss from the beginning? I was unable to find any articles detailing this procedure on a T3 Touareg. Thanks in advance.
While DIY'ing the 60K maintenance on our '12 TDI Lux I seem to have botched something when attempting the brake flush. I was doing the flush via a vacuum bleed using a Mityvac. I started by sucking out the old fluid from the master cylinder reservoir and replacing that with clean fluid. I then proceeded to vacuum fluid from the front passenger caliper. As I was evacuating that line I was expecting fluid to start draining from the reservoir which it didn't. The brake system at this point was, for all practical purposes depressurized and the car disabled. I tried to do the normal 2 person pressure bleed but no fluid was being pushed through the system nor was anything draining from the reservoir. I was told that I had to bleed the calipers in a specific sequence starting with the rear passenger caliper. I tried that as well, first vacuum bleed (which did produce fluid until it ran dry), then pressure bleed which produced nothing.
Aside from having the car towed to a dealership, what can I do here? What did I miss from the beginning? I was unable to find any articles detailing this procedure on a T3 Touareg. Thanks in advance.
