Thread: Air Bags leak
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Old 07-06-2020, 07:09 PM   #4
Cyberian
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Originally Posted by GilaElkHunter View Post
do you have to continually add air or do I have leaking bags.
Yes and yes. The valves will always leak air. Nature of the beast...

I've found that Windex won't show squat and picked up a new sprayer and squirted everything with a mix of equal parts water, Dawn dish soap, and Karo syrup. With this mix, I can see the tiny bubbles- mostly at the fittings where the tube meets the elbow at the top of the bag and tighten the connection(s) while putting a little bit of Vaseline in the fittings.

These are metal to metal flare fittings with little/no copper involved to smush out and seal. My wife's aluminum pressure cooker clued me in on using a little bit of Vaseline on the mating surfaces

Edit to add- now that I see you're running the same braided lines I am, I had this exact same issue. Vaseline at the bag fitting fixed it for me
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