The pressure bleeder helped you find leaks that it created by pressurizing portions of the system that are not normally pressurized.

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Whatever helps draw attention to parts that have failed, I'm OK with. If you looked at the pictures, the plugs were in awful shape.

Regarding not using too much pressure, agreed, but in my case the float plugs started spraying fluid at about 3 psi...

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