Leaky kitchen faucet
The kitchen faucet in my 2001 truck camper has started leaking slightly where the spout enters the faucet assembly base. I pulled the spout out and there is an o-ring near the end. Would this be the...
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Ramblin' Ralph wrote:
I ordered a kit with spout parts, including an o-ring.
That's a good strategy, esp since you don't want to crawl and contort to change it out!
When I got interested in replacing, I found it hard to get a high gooseneck that
1. Wasn't on 4-inch centers called a "bar faucet"
2. Was on the 8-inch centers we already had, but didn't need a third hole at the center, which we didn't have.
I bought one at Home Depot that I thought would replace, and give me some height under the aerator, only to find it really didn't have any more height than the old leaky one. That's when I became thankful for the Phoenix faucets at Amazon.
FYI, my cousin thought he'd need to replace the faucet in his fairly new fiver. Handle broke and wasn't available as a repair part. Luckily he was able to splint the break with something inside it, and epoxy it. Has held. I bring this up because I found that the stainless steel "drop sink" he has, presents a razor sharp steel edge, right where your hands'd be changing the faucet. I would have had to try and tape over it, or worse, try to work in gloves...
