in my experence with these master cyls when bench bleeding after depressing the piston several times you must also depress the piston and block off the hose end with finger then release piston ,otherwise you are just pulling fluid back & forth leaving air voids in the cyl ,also the vacume booster if you have one can cause you grief ,trying to get a good pedal with a bad brake booster is just about impossible ,after changeing the master on my truck 5-times ,made no difference ,could not get a good pedal ,just sank to the floor ,and seemed like air in the system ,but was not ,,replaced the vaccuem booster and bang brake s just like brand new truck .