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4SPEED427


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To begin, I am not a carpenter or a plumber!

For a long time, our shower has had that annoying post-nasal drip. Today I noticed it's a stream now, not a drip any more. I have the chrome stuff stripped off and pictured below is what I am looking at. Where do I go from here?

I am guessing that the tab sticking up in the middle is some sort of clip? It seems to wiggle slightly. Do I pull it up and then slide out the cartridge or whatever you would call it?

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Shut the water off,pull the clip,pull the cartridge with pliers,and bring to home depot,lifetime warrenty.

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It's called a diverter. It looks worn out. easy as pie to replace. Just make sure to shut off the hot and cold. 30 second repair.

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Diverter is on the spout,used to turn on the shower.You dont have to turn off the hot,cause the cold pressurizes it.

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Hi Carl,

Moen has a "lifetime limited" (5 -year) warranty on faucets manufactured after 1995.
http://www.moen.com/consumer-support/warranty

We have all Moen in our house.
You have to take the defective part out.
I hope you have a second bathroom ... time to put an "out of order" sign up.

-- Edited by Pontiacanada on Saturday 8th of May 2010 05:34:15 AM

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i was gonna say what you guys said. So who is going to come help me completely gut and redo my bathroom??LOL !

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I built my new bathroom this year. Being in the country, I had to bust up the floor to install the drains and the ejector pit an pump. What a pain in the a$$. Being a pipefitter it still took me over a week to pipe in the crapper and my new wet bar (Beer is always cold here!working after work.

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Thanks for the help guys. I hope to be able to get parts this morning as soon as someone is open. Being in the country makes that a bit more of a challenge.

We have a second bathroom but there are no shutoff taps that I can find in the supply lines to this bathroom so it will be a total shutdown when it's time to repair.

This Moen unit is from 1993 when we built, so likely warranty is a non issue.

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canadian tire has those cartridges as well free to give out ,but you have to ask someone as the parts are in kits moen gives out to them

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if you cant find shutoffs i would highly recomend you put some in, can save you alot of hassle in the long run.

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Thanks for the tips guys. I got it done this morning.

I went to our local Home Hardware. The guy working there (who I didn't even know) was nice enough to give me a cartridge without me having the old one removed yet. I explained I didn't want to take it apart until I had the new one because it meant shutting off the entire house water supply.

Not a bad job but it took a pretty hard twist with that special tool from Moen to break it free. Once I got it to do that it came out with a bit of tugging.

The new unit has no o-ring on the back end like the old one did but it seems to be fine without it. Anyone else changed one and seen that?

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Ya Carl,the newer ones are different.Should last longer before it leaks with your hard water.

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Our water isn't very hard Chris. We don't have a well if that is what you are thinking. The wells only start about 20 miles north of here.

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Oh,well then it should be the last one you put in I would think.Moen is a pretty good brand.

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