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The replacement battery came with clear plastic covers on each of the battery pods. Do I need to remove those before I install. Looks like they should, but I couldn’t find anything that referred to them. They don’t come off super easy.

When I began to do this on 1 of the 6 the replacement battery pods, it slightly puffed up. I had only pulled up about a 1/4 of the clear covering from the battery.. So is it bad or unsafe to use now??

No vein marks. Pod puffed up like 2mm, no longer hard like other 5.