My Delta two handle faucet started leaking last week. So I installed new faucet seats and springs in both the hot and cold side. They were getting a little crusty, and would make your fingers/hands black as you handled them.
The hot side is fine now, it was initially the one that was leaking, confirmed by turning the supply off one side at a time. The cold side was fine for a while, then it started leaking again. I pulled it apart and reassembled it and it stopped leaking again, until last night. Now it is a pretty steady drip. What am I missing here? Can the universal stem assembly be bad? It doesn't look bad, the O-ring is intact.
This isn't exactly what it looks like, mine is old enough (18 years) that it still has more metal parts.
https://www.efaucets.com/detail.asp...24270&ef_id=VnsZJwAABDntpHAz:20170821144402:s
Is there some trick to this relatively simple operation that I'm missing?
The hot side is fine now, it was initially the one that was leaking, confirmed by turning the supply off one side at a time. The cold side was fine for a while, then it started leaking again. I pulled it apart and reassembled it and it stopped leaking again, until last night. Now it is a pretty steady drip. What am I missing here? Can the universal stem assembly be bad? It doesn't look bad, the O-ring is intact.
This isn't exactly what it looks like, mine is old enough (18 years) that it still has more metal parts.
https://www.efaucets.com/detail.asp...24270&ef_id=VnsZJwAABDntpHAz:20170821144402:s
Is there some trick to this relatively simple operation that I'm missing?