Shower Diverter

Tom M

I repaired a shower diverter for my brother in law or so I thought. He had an old Gerber 3 stem unit. The hot knob was frozen and cold had full action. I opened the diverter to find old cartriges with-out stem washer types. I saw a decayed hot cartrige with some solder or debris jamming the action and the cold had debris from a missing pin that controls the range. Perfect I say to myself I will just change the cartriges. They sell a kit for like 35 bucks. I put in new equipment , works great except I have a drip that wont stop. It almost seems that water from the shower pipe doesnt full drain from the chamber even when you free the flow there is left over water dripping. I checked the new stem washers they seem in tact could it be the old manifold of the diverter?

BigMikeB

Did you look at the seats to see if there is soe debris stuck in there? If there was that much garbage in there maybe some small pieces got lodged in someplace, did you try and flush the manifold out when you had it all apart?

Tom M

I pulled the shower head to flush and I had to install seat valves for the new cartridges. The old ones did not have any. I cant see what I am missing I cant tell if the drip is from supply water or left over water.

irate808

That one is hard to diagnose. Since you replaced all of that, I would expect it to work properly. If I was in that situation, I would just replace it.