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Clean and lubricate

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Price Pfister Faucet Super Hard to Turn On

What happens here

Clean the cartridge and handle assembly using a fitting brush and a pick. Apply silicone grease to the O-rings and splines of the cartridge.

Goal: Ensure smooth operation of the faucet

Tools and materials

  • Fitting Brush
  • Pick
  • Screwdriver
  • Silicone Grease

What they say

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we really need to get this thing apart if you come over right here you can see that you can just spin that piece off without actually taking the body off and then this actually exposes the cartridge itself so I think if we hold this piece this way and try to spin this one this way we should be good let's see if we can grab this right here I just don't want to destroy the finish here this is horrible man man all right that should probably work I have to tell you did not think this was going to be this hard oh gosh now we can pop this piece off we're going to get a little more PB Blaster in here just let that set like that for a minute all right so we're back you can see by all these marks that I have been trying to do this for a little while at what point do you give up and you just say you know what I'm done get that there oh I think we got her oh PB Blaster man it's freaking PB Blaster dude it always comes through all almost went and bought a new faucet yeah I don't know what these guys did dude I don't know what they did there I don't know what all that is I don't really have a clue what all that is why is it so jacked up it looks like they expansion foamed it to get it to stay Place insane man like really it looks like they couldn't get it to stay in place so they like put some expansion foam on it or something I this thing is Jack City dude see what we can do there try to clean it all up um get all that crap out of there you know see if we can actually get it spinning good again I mean it does spin actually this closes very well nice and easy it's it's this whole thing it's this whole assembly up here see what we got there see what we can get loosened up we'll go grab some stuff and clean this up it's crazy all right grabbed a old fitting brush a pick cple paper towels let's see what we got here this dude shouldn't be water build up or I don't know though ear wax no so because this actually closes and opens really smooth I'm not going to take that apart okay this fosa is not that old all right so now that we've got that hooked back up I mean that that seal is a little bit jacked but it actually is still whole so it should be fine we should be able to pop that back down on the sink and it won't be a deal it should work we we got some pure silicone grease here we'll pop some of that off and we'll take some of that we'll put it right on the spines of this that just to ensure that this is going to come off again we want it to and honestly you just go with…

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