Originally Posted by tunaglove
My brakes have been mushy since buying the car, so I finally got around to replacing the fluid. I used one of those air assist vacuum bleeder last night and keep getting TONS of air bubbles when bleeding. The manual states not to pump the brake pedal because it will fill the line with air so I just attached the sucker and cracked the bleed valve. I made sure the resivoir was full at all times. Am I doing something wrong?? The brakes still feel mushy but the car stops OK.
Odds are you did not have a good seal on the bleeder or the bleeder was opened too far and you were getting air around the bleeder valve threads.
Keep valve on the vac only slightly open and just barely open the bleeder on the xaliper until you start to get fluid draining, any more and you will get an air leak.
And of course keep the reservoir full.
IMO the Crossfire does not have a real firm brake pedal anyway.