Upside down brake fluid container

Yeah, I wouldn't trust that setup, especially considering how corrosive brake fluid is on painted surfaces.

I use a pressurized bleeding kit that holds up to 4L of brake fluid. No refilling the brake fluid reservoir if you have enough fluid in there when you start.

They have Toyota specific adapters for these systems. I highly recommend them over using a universal type fitting.

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SMOTIVEPRO 43mm Master Cylinder Bleeder Adapter Compatible with Toyota and Lexus https://a.co/d/4KXws9m

SM-G781V ?

 

They make an adapter that can plug into your brake reservoir but then you've got to do something about your hood being in the way there's no way you're going to go through that much fluid that's a pure farce especially if you follow the steps logically clamp off everything anyway the way I do it I'm almost prefilling the block of aluminum the whole assembly as I'm tightening up the lines from bottom to top You can see the fluid come out and pushing air at the first fitting then you tighten it then you see the fluid come with starting out of the second one You see the air bubbles that all stops and it's just fluid You tighten it and so on You end up stopping with the very top fitting on the accumulator to the side and behind the plug. So then after you get all that situated and take your relays out you get ready to start bleeding the front right by pumping and all of that so someone sitting in the car preferably so by the time you do the right front and you go to walk over to the left you top up the reservoir but the cap on the brake fluid bottle and go do the left side front. Then put the relays back in and go do the back starting on the left realizing that an electric pump is going to come on now and try to pump everything out don't have your face in the way when you hear some air let it pump for just seconds and then close it back up and have your friend off the break and then back on do it again till you get a straight stream of fluid coming out that side then do the other Go back up and check the reservoir and you will see you've not used very much at all and just want to keep it on the full marker near that right now now that you've done that turn the car off. Turn it back on see if you have a bunch of lights go forward and backwards and use the brakes and see if your pedals near normal and what have you.

 

If you notice, the reservoir is not full, so the container is NOT full.
If you PAY ATTENTION, you won't run out of fluid.
And yet, will just poor out all over the place.

Don't believe everything you see or read.

 

Be smart, do it the way Toyota says. You not only risk your life, your passengers lives,
but those you will crash into when the brakes fail.....

You'll need 2 people to do the job, BOTH should be aware of the fluid level as you do
the procedure.....

It doesn't matter how many times you do something wrong, it doesn't make it right.

 

I'm only saying some people need to have other people "think" they are special.
So they will come up with all kinds of ideas to make people think they are special.
Common sense would tell you that a full 32oz bottle of brake fliud in a full resevoir WILL
overflow.
There are special tanks that attach to the resevoir to hold fliud. Usually they are under pressure.
You could rig something to attach that is sealed, then pour the fluid into it.
It would likely be a little messy when you remove it. But you could suck out the unused fluid so
there is less fluid spilt. And if you put rags around the resevoir the rags would soak up the fluid.

 

You don't need anything special. Just keep it close to the top. It's that simple.
It will go down as your bleed each caliper, and do other steps. Check it during and after
each step and you won't have a problem.
Don't make anything harder than it is.

 

You were able to complete the whole bleed job? What tool did you use?
How long did it take?
Are the brakes working correctly?

 

See this thread, https://priuschat.com/index.php?posts/3488063

 

Leak down test, if it passes, change parts. If it fails, leak stop in the radiator and hand the keys to carvana.

 

The shaking is from a cylinder or two trying to pass water.
That water came from a pool of mixed oil and moisture from the PCV system that was lying at the bottom of the intake manifold...
Or a bit of coolant in a cylinder or two from a slowly failing head gasket.
Test for 'combustion byproducts' in the coolant.

A leak down test only puts ~15psi on the coolant to push it through a fault in the head gasket.
Combustion pressures are incredibly high and push through into the coolant.
If you lucky {unlucky] you may see coolant drops forming at the failure point on the head gasket, but it will take time to show up, sometimes.

"EGR work or low battery" has nothing to do with a shaky start up.

And Mumms the Word. Xnay on the Asketgay.
Buyer beware....

I'm ashamed to say that's how I fixed one of my Gen3's when it got the chronic head gasket failure.

 

Do you mean the "block test", where coolant is drawn up into a tube with an indicator solution, and if it changes color it's due to carbon monoxide in the coolant? That is not how gen 3 head gaskets typically fail, it's usually coolant leaking into combustion chamber, so: no.

More telling is borescope inspection with the coolant system pressurized, or leak-down test.

What's the miles on it? Has the EGR system been cleaned, and if so, at what miles?