Best approach to bleeding brakes - Part 2

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by DanEC

It may be closer to 2 inches that 2-1/2. I was pushing with my foot and trying to hold a tape measure and reading it down there was difficult. And cscobra brings up a good point that after the surface is scuffed off the pads and the pistons are in their normal position that free play should further decrease.

Thanks

Yeah, I wouldn't dwell on a lot of this stuff until you've put 500 "soft" miles on the car. And I think that's important, that the first 500 miles be relatively gentle so everything has a chance to mate, or break off, gently.