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Say Goodbye to Leaking Hose Bibs with This Hack #plumbing #tutorial #diy

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This project guides you through replacing a faulty vacuum breaker on a frost-free hose bib that is causing leaks. It covers safely removing the old, potentially stubborn, part, cleaning the threads, inspecting the new vacuum breaker, installing it hand-tight, and finally testing the connection for a leak-free operation.

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So I came over to my neighbor's house because he has a frost free hose bib that when the hose is hooked up It's still leaking. He was trying to chain to this vacuum breaker right here, and he could not get it off So when you're doing a job like this you want two sets of pliers One to hold is a backup the other to actually take this off Hold this right here is a backup and then turn this is probably gonna be pretty hard because they've put red lock tight on this You zoom upon that you can see the red lock tight. All right. Let's get that cleaned off Grab a fitting brush All right, so he bought this PK 1390 fine thread self-draining vacuum breaker This is a replacement for this Comes with this little set screw. I don't ever actually put this on if you put this on and break it off It's gonna be really hard to take this off It actually comes with a washer that's gonna allow this to seal can just go hand tight with this And now we're good to go fast easy replacement in my neighbor's back in business

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