| I pulled a wheel off. Earlier I'd tonight when I wash the car, I cleaned the calipers through the wheels with a degreaser and rinsed. Pulled a wheel off and dried off the excess water from earlier. Pressed brake pedal and brake fluid seeped out the bleeder hole, not around the threads. I had previously tightened the bleeders to 5.1 ft-lbs with my digital snap-on torque wrench accurate to 2%. I loosened slightly and tightened to the maximum torque of 6.0 ft-lbs and retested. Same result. Removed speed bleeder and checked inside with mirror for debree. None seen. Cleaned with q-tip just in case. Re-installed speed bleeder and re-tested. Same result. Removed and installed stock bleeder to and tightened by hand. Re-tested. No leakage. Torqued stock bleeder down to 5 ft-lbs. Retested, of course no leakage as it didn't happen under a fraction of 1 ft-lb. So it is conclusively the Speed Bleeder. I'm sure they will deny all responsibility.
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