Always learning. Replaced the whole valve once. Learned the right way, and replaced the springs and gaskets the second time. Thanks TX

This instruction helped me to replace the seats and springs. I appreciate this very much!

Thanks for posting this! I was fixing to get a plumber to fix this and I figured it wouldn’t hurt for me to try it myself! You saved me a lot of money! Thanks again!

Thanks for posting this! Your explanation and video made this a snap on a 17 year old faucet! My girl thinks I’m a superhero because about 15 mins of work later there’s no more leak! Thanks brother! (P.S.- Love the background music!😎)

Great advice. Replaced the seats and springs - resolved the issue. Wish there would have been a local plumbing store open on the weekend.

*Please read* !! The video omits a key step -- before you begin anything, TURN OFF THE WATER to your house/apartment first, and drain the faucets before proceeding! This may be obvious for those who are not beginners, but anyone can potentially forget. I've heard stories of people who created geysers of water and experienced geysers of embarrassment after forgetting to do this! Another tip before you begin is to cover your drain -- you are dealing with small objects that can slip away forever and bring your work to a screeching halt! If this comment helps even one person, it will be so worth it!

I watched 10 videos until I came to yours...you saved me the $40 for a new cartridge! I used your advice and bought new seat/ springs set for $2.79 and it worked flawless! Thank you! If your ever in Indy I’ll buy you a beer or 3...! 🍺

You are the man got those for 3 bucks and the seat and springs worked can't thank you enough.

Hi! Thank you very much for the video. Our shower was leaking again, and your suggestion was perfect, no more leaks and not having to buy a new one. Thanks!

Spot on! Only thing I would add is to take note of the position of the cartridge when you pull it out from the base. I didn't. When I reinstalled, I had it flipped 180 degrees, resulting in the water being hot first and then cold when turned on. I had to take it all apart and flip it for the hot to be all the way to the left again. No big deal, as this was perhaps the easiest, cheapest home repair I have EVER done! So thankful to have found this video!!

Thank you!!!! Just bought a house and it was recently remodeled. Contacted delta and they sent a repair kit. Was hesitant to do it myself but after watching your video I gave it a go! And the seat and springs was the fix. Thank you much!!!!

Thanks for the awesome video...my faucet is from 1989/1990...I figured I would have to replace the whole setup because it would be hard to find parts...but for $3.18 I was able to fix it right away. But when I took my springs and seats out you could see the spring thru the seat.

Thank you, sir!! Great step-by-step video!! Saved lots of money by following your advice.

Great success. Was 6.37 tho, they had Danco but springs looked different. I just paid the extra for the Delta as they looked alike, (springs went from wide to thin out near top, Danco were straight and not tapered, also appeared to be longer by a couple rings).

I tried repairing the old cartridge but it still had a drip. I replaced the cartridge from Lowes, no drip. There is another video where the guy tells you what Delta cartridge you need where he says he has never had much luck rebuilding them. I paid $58 for a genuine Delta cartridge but my wife is HAPPY.

Thanks for this video. I’m having this leaking problem just a few weeks ago. And I said to myself, this is a waste of water. We just had our bathroom renovated last February 2020. Instead of me fixing myself this leak, I just texted the contractor who did it and also told them that once you turn the water it runs hot water without going all the way to the left. I thought they did this in purpose so that way the water is hot right away 😁....then I read some comments and found out that it is possible they installed it incorrectly. I also thought it’s a good thing and convenient to have hot water right away 😂. Thank you again for this video.

Thank you! Just got mine fixed today by watching your video.

Thank you for posting this video, your presentation made it easy for me to replace the seat & spring

Inflation to 2019 $2.95 at Lowes...but really thanks for the video...made it so much easier for Mrs. Dad to fix.

Delta faucet customer service will replace cartridges, seats, and springs for free if you email or call them. You just need to give them the model#, when it was originally installed, and tell them how long it’s been leaking. They have replaced all of our shower, bathtub, bathroom and kitchen sink faucet cartridges for free over the last few years, and all OEM😎👍

Thank you for making this video. I followed your instructions and fixed my leaky shower head for $5.00 instead of $40.00

Thank you! I am going to try this tomorrow. My rental shower has been leaking for months and the landlord is not in the least bit concerned about it. The constant dripping annoys me!

I always just replaced the entire cartridge - this is a great video, thank you for making it. Also, the difference in price from the big brand chains to the local stores is very revealing. Thanks again.

Great video. Camera work, straightforward explanation, “buy local”, and as others mentioned, the music. Cool bassline pumping through it. Thanks! 👍🏼

Great video---well done-- gonna try fix ours today. Hope I get lucky like you did. Good detail and fun music besides. Thanx for posting.

This is an excellent video for various reasons. First, you said buy local. That's so true as my folks owned a department store for 25 years. My Dad kept it open 5 years longer than his CPA accountant recommended and lost money each of those last 5 years. But he kept it open as a community service for the small town/community I grew up in. Secondly, if you go to a local store, you can tell them the problem and they quite often can tell you the solution. I had to repair a dryer 2 times and both times he told me what I needed and how to do it. First time he had the part on inventory and second time he ordered the part for me. Even if it costs slightly more, you still save money versus having a professional make a house call which typically runs you $100 just to walk in the door. Thirdly, I'm working, as we speak, on an older Peerless shower/tub handle which is similar to your Delta and made by Delta. I saw that cartridge at Lowe's too for almost $40! That blew me away because right beside it was a complete replacement for this Delta which also includes 2 handles, 1 like yours & 1 round one so you can choose either type that matches your current bathroom setup, along with face plate, cartridge, seals, etc. And it comes in the finish you have or chrome for $39.97! So one could replace everything for the same price as 1 cartridge! It too was made by Danco. Finally, this is the second day I've been working on. It's older and uses a "ball stem" setup, which goes up and down. According to Delta, one is suppose to remove the white adjustment piece in front before unscrewing a similar piece like you did right at first. But it won't budge. There are 2 types of ball stem replacement parts but I don't know which one it is. So I bought a Danco "repair kit for Delta & Peerless", item #88103, which I believe is designed more for regular faucets but it has that little silver wrench I need to hopefully untighten the white ring. I believe it's the temperature regulator. The ball stem may be okay; who knows. It does have various seals along with 2 springs and 2 little seals like you used so I may luck out. I don't think the ball stem types even have a cartridge but have read they are connected to 3 brass pipes. So one has to be careful not to break the pipes, creating a huge behind the wall repair! Ironically, they say not to use a pipe wrench as it could break those pipes. And the wrench you used I just happened to see also and wish now I had purchased it. Oh; my Danco at Lowe's (9:30 at night) cost me $7.96 while the Delta brand wanted $19.99! I might also mention that little leak doesn't look like much. But I've used both a 1 gallon and 5 gallon bucket to collect the water while using a main drain opener which recommends not using any water for 24 hours for it to work. Well, I was collecting 1 gallon of water every 20 minutes! Didn't think it would be so much. That's 3 gallons of water every hour, times 24 = 72 gallons a day! Times 30 = 2,160 gallons a month!!!! That increases my water bill by 35%....35% more water usage charge, 35% more sewer usage charge, and 35% more taxes/fees so it's costing one more than they might realize, month after month, year after year. Sorry so long but thanks for an informative video. Hopefully my comments can also assist someone.

$2 fix. You're the man! Thank you so much.

Helped me, saved me about $300. Thanks

Your advice worked great. Picked up the springs and seats at my local Ace hardware store. Cheap fix!

Such a great job! Thank you much!

Thank you so much for this video!!!!! You even listed the link to the parts I can buy. I'm going to save $170!!!

Thank you so much for this video. We saved ourselves a lot of $. Parts only cost about $3.00

great job, hopefully I can fix mine. Thank you for all your tips and yeahIll buy locally too.👍

Thank you for sharing. I plan to go to HD to get this part and attempt this repair. Looks like price is now $4.97 but a deal compared to a service call. Step #1 should be to turn off water to house? Pretty common sense but worth mentioning/repeating.

Thank you so much for a great helpful video!!! Saved me big time.

Thanks, helps save money and reduce wastage of good parts.

Thanks for your help Sir. No more leaks 👍🏾

I got the entire value body, large o ring, handle, and packet of rubber sets & springs from delta for FREE!

Thank you for this! You inspired me to take this on!

Thanks I have watched a video from Delta and was ready to purchase the $60 part... But you've shown the part is easily opened and changing the rubber rings and spring is straightforward

Thank you for this. I just fixed mine using this video. I'd never done anything like it. I believe it's a 1/8 allen wrench for the handle.

I replaced seats and springs in both of mine and stopped the leaks. I also put that grease on every seal/o ring I could find. Thank you.

Your video helped me. Thanks!

This was very helpful. It was detailed and I was able to fix it as well. Thankyou

Thank you for this video, this small i need to fix my delta monitor faucet.

Thanks much for this money saving idea.

Damn! I ordered a new cartridge from Amazon and it arrives tomorrow. Checked my local Lowe's and they have over 10 Danco washer kits for $2.08 each. Think I'll pick one up and give it a try. I can always return the cartridge to Amazon.

Need that same exact unit that's pictured in this video...however at HD and Lowes a full replacement is $53.00, but the repair kit (seats and washers) are only $2.51 at HD and Lowes. I live in California

Fantastic! You saved me a crap load of money!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you so much for this video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I did this and it still leaked. It was a nice try. Not saying it doesn't work for most people. Just didn't get lucky this time for me. I'll be replacing the full cartridge. Great video. Thanks for posting.

Thanks so much! Ours was even cheaper…like free b/c my husband remembered we had the sets and springs in our junk drawer.

Thank you, I knew there had to be a way to replace the spring and seats with out replacing the entire assembly.

thumbs up. this was exactly my problem and they wanted to fix it for 150. it cost me about 3 dollars and 5 minutes.

Thanks! Took me 5 minutes and $2.

Oh my gosh I did it! It took a couple runs to the hardware store but by golly I did it. It was touch and go for a minute there. I even called the plumber and made an appointment for them to come out two weeks away… Then I realized I had the wrong Allen wrench size. It should’ve been 1/8 instead of 3 mm. Fraction of a difference made ALL the difference. No drip and no plumbing bill. Thank you so much! Gotta go cancel the plumber!

Thanks for your step through of this process. I checked out your link for the seats and spring. Would you believe $1.00 in the USA and $15.44 on Amazon Canada!

Never had any trouble from Delta sending me a free cartridge ... took about a week but didn't pay a dime. Also sometimes just taking the handle off and putting a flyers inside the plastic stopper and turning to the right will close it off and stop leaking. You can turn the handle to off BUT if it's not centered, you might thing its off when it still needs to be seated to the right more. Saves you from taking everything off. This is especially true after putting in a new set and it still leaks.

Great video and it saved me some money!

Super helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this!!

Thank you for the vid! I’ll have to try this out. Our 3 showers have Delta valves and all leak! I wonder if this kit will be the same for our house built in 1999?

Thanks you make look fairly easy My brother said it would be to hard and says to call a plumber here they charge 100.00 per HR I will try first house is only 4 yrs old but still leaks

Wondering how long on avg. these springs/seats last? Have just inherited Delta shower faucets in the home we moved into. Hard water here and have already stripped the set screw trying to remove to get at the cartridge. I'm going to fix it this time around. Hoping I can avoid breaking the cartridge where it meets the handle, so I can just replace springs/seats. Will have to get a new set screw (hopefully they can be purchased?) at a minimum and will definitely use some plumbers grease/anti-seize on the new one.

great video, very helpful

Thank you very much!! You saved me a lot of money!!

Recently had my shower renovated with this type of Delta Valve and have water leaks, sometimes very little to a consistent drip. Assuming the rings are bad? Gonna take it apart and apply some plumbers lube or something similar. Hope that works. Thanks

Good information. Don’t know why you have so many haters on here talking nonsense.

Thank you for posting this! I've swapped a lot of those cartridges out, and now I learned I may not have to go that far! The challenge I run into most often is removing the handle without snapping the brass stem off. Would that silicone grease help keep it from binding, or is it not recommended to use it there? Also, that's probably the happiest background music I've heard in a DIY video.

Well done. Unfortunately, the springs and seats didn't do the job for us. We had to get a whole new cartridge to stop the drips. Instead of waiting for the seats and springs being sent by Delta, we picked up a Danco kit at Lowe's. After installing them, the shower still dripped, although not as badly. Delta claims their brand-name seats and springs would have worked, but there's no way we are going to remove the new cartridge and put in the old one to find out. Delta fought reimbursing us for the cartridge (the shower is only 11 months old), but it looks like they might after all.

thank you, very useful video!

You forgot to one thing. Tell all the DIYers to turn off the water.

Good job buddy!

Why did you put the valve grease on the outside threads? Looked like the grease might have worked better inside the valve on the surface where the rubber seats have to slide back and forth.

Thank you! Good video!

I've replaced my Delta washers and single shower handle for free. Twice so far. All I did was write to Delta and it was sent to me free of charge. Free. No shipping fee, no nothing. All the way to Hawaii. Great company.

Kudos- saved me dollars! Thanks

This is well done and informative. Be careful with your audio levels, the music is much louder than the voice over.

Did this and it’s fixed for a day. Now filling up buckets again with same single drip every few seconds. Shower related? Or something else to try?? Great vid. Thx.

Don't overlook the fact your water pressure regulator for your house may be defective and causing higher than normal pressure. When a second faucet in the house started to leak, I bought a water pressure gauge and checked the pressure at a outdoor hose valve. It was 90 psi. it should be 50 psi. I replaced the pressure regulator returning the pressure to 50 psi and the leak stopped.

Thanks for sharing. I need to work on a leaking Delta shower valve but am having difficulty taking out the handle. What size allen key did you use on yours?

Thank you so much, works with me 😊

Love this

Great video. I hope you're still responding to comments on it. I just got back from the store and bought the kit and grease that you suggested. I thought I was all set however, I can't seem to get a bite on the screw that holds the handle in place. Can you tell me what size Alan/Hex wrench it takes?

Excellent, thankyou. ... !

great video thanks

Good video. 63 plumbers did not appreciate the loss of business. ;)

Thanks for your great video. How do you find the model number for the faucet? I've been leaving in my cookie cutter home for the past 17 years now and I have no idea how to find the part number.

I had same thing, but after replace the rubber and spring, didn’t fix it. And I made mistake , hot and cold water reversed. Will try again next time

Well shot and produced, but most of all great info. Thanks!

Great job thank you

Thank you!👍🏻

Excellent .

Must be nice to have your Allen key seat nicely and have the screw not be gunked over and impossible to remove. About to take a sawzall to this thing and replace the entire mechanism

Show to be an 8/32 Allen wrench to remove the handle set BUT no one seems to stock that size Allen, any help with finding one? Thanks!

thank you!

Phone Delta for lifetime warranty cartridge if made after 1995. What make of groove joint plier were you using?

Great interlude music, love the French accordion! Also, I went to a Plumbing supply house instead of Home Deepbutt, for a new cartridge. Good advice, thanks!

Thank you very much.

Thanks. Just replaced one.