Front brakes stuck after almost full system replacement

IkariBattousai

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Des Moines, IA
Not too long ago I snapped a brake line trying to replace my wheel cylinder on my drum brakes and we decided to replace basically everything past the portioning valve. I replaced the steel lines front to back, and replaced the brakes themsevles with the full brake system kit from black magic, so pads, rotors, drums, shoes, etc. Once we got it on the front brakes were stuck closed and I couldn't get the Jeep to move at all. Thought one of the calipers was bad or maybe the flex hoses were corroded on the inside. Replaced those with centric parts. One of those had a stuck bleeder valve so I replaced it with speed bleeders, bled. Still stuck. When I go to replace that caliper again just in case, I get it off and that side of the axle spins fine, but the other side is still stuck. I'm starting to think it's not the calipers. The rear wheels spin freely. Do you think I have a bad master cylinder? The brakes worked fine before!
 
So new front calipers and only one side is stuck? What happens if you loosen the bleeder on the stuck caliper? Are the slider pins or piston stuck?
 
I think I found the culprit:

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