Dripping Shower - Delta 1400 shower

We have two Delta 1400 showers in tne house. One shower has been dripping for a while and has progressively gotten worse. When the second shower started dripping, I decided to do something about it.

My first challenge was with determining my model number. I found it under the handel: Delta 1400. You can contact Delta with tbe model number and they will send a replacement for free. All you have to do is install it!

I will cover tbe installation here.

Step one: Shut off the water to the shower. If your shower doesn't have a shut off? You'll have to shut off the water to the entire house. Remember; Righty tighty (close) and lefty loosey (open).

There is a round metal cover that tells Hot or Cold. Many instructions will tell you to remove the cover (as shown above). However, removing it will require you to recaulk it, and removal is not neccessary. I recommend you do not remove it.

 

Begin by removing the cap on the shower handle. There is a trick to this. The handle features an arrow to the right of the blue bar. On the complete opposite site of the dial (left of the red bar) there should be a place to wedge a flat screwdriver in to pop that cover off.

Once the cover is removed, you can take out the screw holding the handle, and then remove the handle.

 

 

The chrome cylinder cover will slide off. Don't use any tool on it because that will scratch it. Just grab ahold and kinda twist as you pull



There is a white plastic piece on the end that is going to fall off and get in your way, so, just proactively remove it and throw it away - you don't need it anymore.

 

Next, you have to remove the collar. Sometimes this can be removed by hand. Sometimes it get stuck and becomes a nightmare to remove.

 

If it gets stuck? Hit is with some PB Blaster and let it sit for 20-30 minutes.

 



 

You want to be careful that you don't damage the pipes behind the wall by torking it too hard. Put a good fitting pipe wrech on it, put some count-clock-wise pressure on the wrench, and then whack the hell out of the wrench with a hammer or another wrench. Eventually that collar will loosen and begin to turn.

 

Once the collar is off, you are remove the cartridge. The cartridge is held in place by rings that form a but of a suction, so, it will take some effort to pull it out.

I live to get a flat screw driver and help pry the cartridge out.

This picture shows the old cartridge. Just throw it away.

 

Next, clean the opening so the new cartridge can make a good fit

This picture shows the new cartridge

The cartridge will tell you which side is for the "Hot" side and which side is for the "Cold" side. When you insert the cartridge, you want to make sure you have the hot side on the hot side.

 

Insert the cartridge. There is a tab on the side that has to line up to the pipe. And then the last quarter inch is going to require a really good shuv.

 

Reassemble everything. But... before you put the handle back on? You need to make an adjustment. The cartridge can control how much hot water comes out to avoid children from getting burned. The cartridge will probably come with the hot water completely turned off. So, you need to make an adjustment if you want any hot water in your shower. Just pull and twist the white part on the end of the cartridge.

Screw the handle back on. Turn the water back on. And your drip will be gone!