How to Fix a Leaky Hosebib | How to Repair an Outside Faucet Leak

hi this is Ross and this is DIY on the house [Music] today I'm going to show you how to change a vacuum breaker on an arrowhead brand hose bib that goes on the house this vacuum breaker installs just on Arrowhead frost free hose bibbs and if you have a different type of hose bib this will work for it one of the symptoms of the vacuum breaker going bad is when you turn it on you'll actually get water squirting out right here and basically everywhere and it doesn't stop our or is dripping consistently while you have a hose hooked up to it so we're gonna take this off and we're gonna be using part number pk11916 let so let's go ahead and get started we take our pliers and about 99.9% the time you're gonna find that this lower extension piece just screws off and actually comes off fairly easy the big part is this part right here you want to put a pair of pliers on a channel box and try to turn it and finding that it won't turn okay and the thing is you don't want to just you know try to rake on that thing because you end up busting a bit off and or busting parts off this and then you're gonna have real issues so what I typically do I have a torch and that torch heats up the the thread Locker on this and I heat it right around this area right here I just get it nice and warm and then once it heats up enough I'll be able to to actually move the this top piece and once it starts moving you keep moving and so the thread Locker doesn't cool back off and try to lock back up so at home not everybody's gonna have a torch probably most people don't so what we're gonna do we're just gonna take a regular little clicker we're gonna heat that up and this is probably going to take a while to heat that out we want to get this piece right here fairly hot to the point where we can actually remove this so I'm just going to go ahead and heat it up with my way so it doesn't take forever but if that's all you have is a clicker or something like that use that so I'm just gonna get this warmed up it doesn't take very long once it's hot enough there it starts terminals and then once it starts moving we just keep going with it and at this point you don't want to touch it unless you have pair gloves on because you know it's got hot enough to actually take the bond off that thread lock and I can actually see there's a little bit of a tinge of red thin Locker on there and that's what was getting hot so after we get that off when I cool it down a little bit and right now you can see that this thread right here there's no way a hose bit but that actually would screw onto that and that's because that this is hose bed thread this is a fine thread so totally different so we're gonna unpack each our part and the new package has a little locking nut on it we want to screw that out we don't want to take it out all the way we just want to make sure it's not when we screw it on it's not affecting the threads and stripping those off as we go sort of make sure our rubbers in here screw that on nice and tight and right now that the little knock Locker bolt screws right there I'm going to take it over here so when I turn the bib on I don't rake my fingers in my knuckles on that and then I'm gonna take the nut now this this nut is designed to break off once it gets enough pressure on it I don't like doing that because these things they don't last forever and another you know five six seven 10 years I want to take this off I'm going to be able to take it off if you if you break this nut off end up having to take a your little saw saw a little V notch here break off this piece of brass to get that nut off so you don't ruin the three when you take it back off really like pressure I'm actually not even gripping the pliers I'm just kind of letting a slide over that's locked on okay and so super one thing I did notice on this one we're getting a little grip feature in the handle sometimes when you have a bib that drips right around the handle area here just take your pliers give it a just a little nudge not even an eighth of a turn just a little nudge just to tighten that packing back onto that stem and it's good to go hope you enjoyed the video and hopefully that saves you some money on a service call from the plumber and it's just one of those things that's easy to do it yourself thanks for watching DIY on the house [Music]

Channel: DIY On The House

Views: 125,958

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Id: LKJz2YzwB9A

Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Thu May 14 2020