Stripped out valve stem. 50-60 year old original valves - for the life of me I can’t seem to find an exact match. Any ideas?
Shower Stem Valve - repairable or replace?
Okay - if there's anyone who comes across this issue in the future, here's what I did to fix the issue.
First, what I have pictured is a stem extension for a Delta faucet. Removing this item required me to turn the water off to my house and disassemble the shower escutcheon (metal sleeve that this plastic bit fits in to). Once I had it disassembled it came out of the actual valve in the wall.
From there I went to home depot and purchased the following:
Stem Extension
Delta Stem Assembly
Gasket kit for stem.
Since I already had the water off I went ahead and replaced both sides of the shower handles.
I disassembled the valve, took the old parts out, and put the new stuff in in the same way it came out. The issue at hand was someone took the old shower handles off of the stem extension and didn't replace the long metal bolt that screws in to the brass section of the stem assembly. They then used a "clamp" style shower handle that broke the stem extension.
All and all, including a new shower head, I was out approximately $170. That includes new shower head, shower head extension, and two new ceramic handles. Total actual fix for these parts (assuming you don't have to replace shower handles) would likely be more around $60.
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Good afternoon!
I have an issue in my son's bathroom. The plastic stem that one of the handles sits on has broken and now no matter how tight I set the handle to the stem it's not turning off the water 100%.
I'm relatively certain the entire stem is going to need to be replaced.
Or am I lucky and there's a small screw holding that plastic stem in place and the plastic bit itself can be replaced without replacing the entire valve stem? I've tried to look in the hole and I cannot see one.
Thank you in advance!
Okay - if there's anyone who comes across this issue in the future, here's what I did to fix the issue.
First, what I have pictured is a stem extension for a Delta faucet. Removing this item required me to turn the water off to my house and disassemble the shower escutcheon (metal sleeve that this plastic bit fits in to). Once I had it disassembled it came out of the actual valve in the wall.
From there I went to home depot and purchased the following:
Stem Extension
Delta Stem Assembly
Gasket kit for stem.
Since I already had the water off I went ahead and replaced both sides of the shower handles.
I disassembled the valve, took the old parts out, and put the new stuff in in the same way it came out. The issue at hand was someone took the old shower handles off of the stem extension and didn't replace the long metal bolt that screws in to the brass section of the stem assembly. They then used a "clamp" style shower handle that broke the stem extension.
All and all, including a new shower head, I was out approximately $170. That includes new shower head, shower head extension, and two new ceramic handles. Total actual fix for these parts (assuming you don't have to replace shower handles) would likely be more around $60.
Replace the entire thing, but make sure your issue isn’t just the handle part. A lot of those cheap moen handles snap apart when the stem doesn’t twist easily, so you have to at least regrease it.