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Old 10-09-2018 | 02:31 PM
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If you feed it more PSI, it will bleed off right next to the Schraeder valve. That little pull up pin is spring loaded as well. I used to use a little 12V compressor/battery jump starter to pressurize mine, and only one would actually pop off excess pressure. The most important thing is that the green and white dots pop and stay up.
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Old 10-10-2018 | 10:13 PM
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So worst case if I don't fix the air system.... Are the blue plugs an adequate way of draining the system?


Anythingelse i should drain? I pulled the lower water pump hoses and everything seemed empty
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Old 10-11-2018 | 12:31 AM
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I went and bought a cheap cigarette powered air pump and left it on the boat. Then hook it up, turn it on, they pop in 20 seconds and they drain off in like 5 minutes.
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