Extract and Replace Faucet Seat and Spring

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What happens here

After removing the cartridge, inspect the inside of the faucet body. Often, a small rubber seat and a spring are located at the bottom of the cartridge housing. In this case, the original rubber seat was missing, with only the spring visible. Use a small Allen wrench or a pick tool to carefully fish out the old spring and any remaining pieces of the old seat. Take the new spring and rubber seat (usually included with the replacement stem) and insert them into the faucet body, ensuring they are properly seated and oriented. The seat should provide some resistance when pressed.

Goal: Replace the internal rubber seat and spring within the faucet body.

Tools and materials

Allen Wrench — Fishing out old springs and seats
New Faucet Seat — Sealing the water flow
New Faucet Spring Danco — Providing tension for the seat

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It's kind of eerie sounding in it. You're going to still want an Allen wrench and you're going to want to have to get down in here but you can see I can see already that the seat is actually gone. So the fact that this was moving all weird and you turn it to the back and it turned back on. We're actually going to change this out as well but really what I was talking about is inside is going to be a spring and a seat and well you can only actually see the spring down in there right now. So this is just worn away. Probably just changing this out. If this piece hadn't actually still been turning all wonky then we could have just left this. Change this out and been good to go but we're going to go ahead since we bought the whole thing. We're going to pop it out and it needs it anyway. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to use an Allen wrench and we're actually going to fish out that that did not work. All right. Oh interesting. It actually wasn't there. It just looked like it wasn't. Now it was there. I'm wrong sometimes. Kind of can't see. It's hard. It was shiny. It looked like that was the case but not really. So we got these hooked up on here and then well that could have worked out a little bit better. Let's just go one at a time here. Get that spring on there and then just kind of shift that seat around. Now it's good and it has a little more resistance on this whereas the other one I think was sitting pretty flat. It might have just been that the spring was a little wore out. I don't know but I just know it wasn't working. Right? Okay. So with the

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