Single Handle Faucet Cartridge Stuck

Pull out the cartridge stem to the full open position.

Single handle faucet cartridge stuck.

Item 27374 model 1224. Cartridge faucets generally use an up down motion to regulate water flow and control temperature with a left right motion. Make sure both water supplies are turned off. Al moen invented the cartridge faucet and cartridge faucets remain a specialty of the moen company.

In reality you will find more often than not that the cartridge is stuck and despite your best efforts will not budge. To avoid damaging your faucet and parts you can use a cartridge pulling tool on a stuck cartridge. The company designs them to be removable so. Easy to install moen s proven standard cartridge designs allow for easy installation and troubleshooting.

Usually this can be done by hand or with a pair of pliers but occasionally it will stick and require quite a bit of force to remove. Inside the body of the cartridge there is a stem that moves up and down for shut off flow volume and rotates for hot cold mix. Pulling up on the stem is supposed to pull out the cartridge. The removal tool just deforms.

Remove the faucet cartridge. If you have a two handle faucet with handles that turn 90 degrees you have either a cartridge or compression faucet. Moen 2 handle brass and plastic faucet tub shower cartridge. The use of the cartridge puller to remove stuck cartridge.

Disassemble the faucet and remove cartridge retainer clip. Unscrew the knurled screw until it backs out of the recess in the puller as show. In theory replacing a shower faucet cartridge is an easy task. You turn the water off dissemble the faucet handle to expose the cartridge and then pull the cartridge out.

The cartridge valve stem is the moving piece inside the sleeve that is connected to the faucet handle and changes the mix between hot and cold and sometimes flow. The stroke by billy squier permission to use in this video by the legend hims. The cartridge is frozen inside the faucet. The easy way to access a corroded basin faucet fixing nut for removal.

I managed to turn the cartridge body maybe a few degrees and now it is stuck there.