I drive a 2009 ranger xlt 4x4.
I recently did some repairs to my truck. Both upper control arms/ball joints, both lower ball joints, complete front brake replacement (calipers, rotors, pads). Complete rear brake replacement(spring kits, self-adjusting hardware, pads and drums.

After installing all the new gear and torquing the tires back on, was intent to go for a test drive but there is absolutely no brake pressure. Brakes worked perfectly fine before the fresh parts now I have to pump the pedal to get pressure and it for sure doesn’t hold.

Being that I only disconnected the calipers for the quick swap to new ones. I should only have had to bleed them off to get fluid/pressure to the new hardware as opposed to bleeding the whole system. I am a bit stumped on this one. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks to both you and apexkeeper for responding. I went and picked up a vacuum tool and flew at it. Rear brakes were fine but had a pile of air yet in the front side of things. Got it dealt with no problem last night. Been a long week of dealing with this project after work so been grinding a few hours at a time.

You guys do much with ball joints? I replaced both upper control arms and the lower ball joints as well as this whole brake package situation. I’ve never done anything with ball joints previously and I’m going to take it in for an alignment, but, I’m curious if it’s absolutely necessary to do so if it’s set up correctly.
I didn’t disconnect tie rod ends to get the lower ball joints out so