Hi,
Apparently Ferguson is a rather widespread and used distributor for plumbing supplies. And also apparently they have a "house brand" named ProFlo that includes faucets. And among such faucets appears to be PF73 line that includes frost-free sillcocks.
With that, I had a plumber install one of the above units a few years ago because I am not particularly confident in plumbing soldering skills. And in hindsight it seems like he had the unit in his truck for 10 years first, doing a little leaking almost from the get-go that I just tolerated for a while.
Finally having enough, I recently purchased a repair kit that includes parts for the vacuum assembly (an easy one) and also for replacing the seal on the internal stem. But I am unable to disassemble the unit enough to access the stem.
I mean good grief. I went to my local Fergusons and a gentleman kindly pulled a new unit right off the shelf (so they still sell the same model and he said they sell a ton of them as well as the repair kit for it). Yet three terrific people there worked on trying to disassemble the unit for about 40 minutes with no success.
Similar to me and other than an exploded parts view of poor quality, they found no instructions for doing so in their database and nothing online that addresses it either. The unit has two nuts on it, with the first one closest to the handle coming off easily (and already removed). But the one closest to the faucet body (image included) has been immovable to this point and so I am unable to remove the stem.
Opinions have varied from that nut being welded onto the body (though no evidence of that) to being a reverse thread (but I cannot budge it that way either). For anyone that might have experience with this design, any input about how I might finish getting the unit apart and stem out would be greatly appreciated (if the design even allows that, but replacement parts are included in the repair kit). Thank you very much in advance for any responses.
Apparently Ferguson is a rather widespread and used distributor for plumbing supplies. And also apparently they have a "house brand" named ProFlo that includes faucets. And among such faucets appears to be PF73 line that includes frost-free sillcocks.
With that, I had a plumber install one of the above units a few years ago because I am not particularly confident in plumbing soldering skills. And in hindsight it seems like he had the unit in his truck for 10 years first, doing a little leaking almost from the get-go that I just tolerated for a while.
Finally having enough, I recently purchased a repair kit that includes parts for the vacuum assembly (an easy one) and also for replacing the seal on the internal stem. But I am unable to disassemble the unit enough to access the stem.
I mean good grief. I went to my local Fergusons and a gentleman kindly pulled a new unit right off the shelf (so they still sell the same model and he said they sell a ton of them as well as the repair kit for it). Yet three terrific people there worked on trying to disassemble the unit for about 40 minutes with no success.
Similar to me and other than an exploded parts view of poor quality, they found no instructions for doing so in their database and nothing online that addresses it either. The unit has two nuts on it, with the first one closest to the handle coming off easily (and already removed). But the one closest to the faucet body (image included) has been immovable to this point and so I am unable to remove the stem.
Opinions have varied from that nut being welded onto the body (though no evidence of that) to being a reverse thread (but I cannot budge it that way either). For anyone that might have experience with this design, any input about how I might finish getting the unit apart and stem out would be greatly appreciated (if the design even allows that, but replacement parts are included in the repair kit). Thank you very much in advance for any responses.
