I guess you didn't get the memo...technology is supposed to make life easier.....and people talked trash about me paying the dealer $150 to do my brakes...
Seriously, you're doing it old-school, man. I did what you are doing a decade and a half ago, and it worked fine on the cars then. These new cars? They are annoying in that all of them work different, and are a PITA to learn about, especially if you break something $$ in the learning. I can empathize with OP, this is how my brake job on my Infiniti went. Since then...dealer.