[riderfalls]

I was attempting to bleed my Avid Juicy brakes. I followed the directions from Avid, but when I went to the step of releasing the lever and slowly pushing it back into place by pushing the caliper syringe....nothing happened. No matter how hard i pushed the syringe, I could not get the brake fluid to flow back and push the lever to the full out position. The lever now flops back and forth. WTF did i do, and how do I fix it?

 

[oldfart]

You didn't have the bleed port closed on the caliper did you? Or the red clamps clamped on the two syringes?

IIRC the syringe at the master cylinder should be closed off, you hold the brake lever while pushing on the caliper syringe while the bleed port in the caliper is open and the red hose pinch is open.