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Disassemble the Faucet Stem

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What happens here

Before beginning any work, locate and turn off the main water supply to your house or the specific outdoor faucet you are working on. Once the water is off, use channel lock pliers to grip the faucet body for stability, then use another pair of channel lock pliers to loosen the packing nut, which is the hexagonal nut located around the faucet stem. Once loosened, unscrew the packing nut completely by hand. Then, use a long screwdriver or a similar tool to carefully extract the entire valve stem assembly from the faucet body.

Goal: Remove the valve stem and packing nut from the faucet body

Tools and materials

  • Channel Lock Pliers Channellock — Loosening and unscrewing the packing nut, and holding the faucet body for stability
  • Long Screwdriver — Extracting the valve stem from the faucet body

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Boom. You want to use a backup. Unscrew this packing nut here. Why do you not want to come out of there? We're going to pop some packing off. I might have been able to twist it, but honestly, I don't really want to break something. Don't want to pop this out of here. If you look at that right there, that's the exact size. It's definitely worn down. This piece we can go back in here.

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