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Disassemble and Rebuild the Diverter Stem

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3 Handle Shower Valve Not Getting a Lot of Water to the Shower Head!

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Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Jaw Pliers Dewalt
  • Diverter Stem Components Lasco
  • Plumber's Faucet and Valve Grease Oatey

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doesn't have to be crazy, and you're good to go, let's just start pulling this apart, so we'll just unscrew this washer first, get this washer out of here with this screw, experiment comes with a new screw as well, and this is so old and brittle, well I thought maybe we didn't have to chop it out, but it actually came out pretty quick and easy, but yeah you can see that it's started to mushroom out a little bit, and then it actually is pretty beat up there, good little nick taken out of it, and then we can just unscrew this the whole way out, just get that apart, okay, so let's just go to adjustable jaws at this point, just to get this bad boy off of here, one might work, but two always having a backup is always a good idea, and that's just to get this stem out, yes, it's very loose, but we'll replace this packing since they gave it to us, we'll get it hooked up, the other thing with this is, is this little washer right here, like I said, sometimes that comes out and gets stuck, but this one right here, you pop that off, that's going to be replaced by one of these green ones right there, and let's just try to get this out real quick, take it outside, alright, so this can be a little bit messy, it's why we come outside, just flip this around, a little bit of set screwdriver here, I feel like I need a pick right now, I don't know that I have a pick set, okay, well I think that's one of my next Amazon orders is a pick set, but you do this enough, just be gentle around those threads, you don't want to mess up the threads that screw that piece of housing in there, but you can see, just start going around, this will come out, you can do this without jacking those threads up, right, and then boom, you get down to there, and now we've just got that whole thing popped out, cleaned out, and we're good to go, we'll go back inside and we'll put a new packing in after we pick all this up, plumbers faucet and valve grease, we're going to need a little bit of this to put the packing in play here, alright, so let's just take this, we've got this all cleaned out, just go ahead, we're going to pop that packing down in there, get that down as far as it'll go, you'll see that it's in there, it's not going anywhere, we'll just loosely put this on, couple turns, don't make it tight on the packing because that just kind of cinches it down and closes that hole, makes it smaller, we don't want that, you want to grab the stem, so this stem before you actually put this in here like…

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