Village Tinker (Dave) was kind enough to let me use his water gauge. Pressure at my house is about 70psi. When I removed the old tank I had a 3 gallon bucket on top of the water heater. The breaker was off as was the water. Using two wrenches I broke the connection and then slowly unscrewed the tank. As soon as it was free it went right into the bucket filling it with close to 2 gallons of very nasty water. In other words the expansion tank was full. It's not suppose to be full. New tank installed no leaks. Mission accomplished.
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