replying to Senin, Yacko Warner wrote:
senin wrote:

I have a leaky faucet and contacted Moen. They sent me a new
cartridge 1225. The problem is I can't remove the old cartridge. I
removed the pin but the old catridge won't come out. I tried to twist
with the plastic cap, but that didn't seem to do much. Does anyone
have any ideas how to get that old cartridge out?
By the way, its a single handle bath faucet.

Mine was so frozen it chewed up the plastic tool. It was so frozen I had to
drill out
the head of the screw holding the handle, leaving the screw shaft stuck in the
stem, so
the standard puller was not going to work.

I ended up using a hammer and screwdriver to tap on the raised tabs to break
the
cartridge loose and twist it. I grabbed the stem with vice grips, but it
wouldn't
come out. So I tried penetrating oil, then vinegar, and much more tapping with
the
hammer. Eventually it came out about 1/2" then stopped - so I tapped it in and
pulled
it out a couple more times. The the big pull - and out came the core, leaving
the
cartridge body behind.

!$%%#^***!!!

My local Ace doesn't carry the special kit mentioned some places that includes
a tap and
a dowel to push out the cartridge body. I thought I'd check the auto parts
store to see
if they had some sort of puller I could anchor in the water outlet holes in
the cartridge
body. They didn't, but they did have some large screw/bolt extractor tools.
The one sized
for bolts 5/8 to 7/8 - 1/2" in diameter at it's shaft - did the trick. Drive
it in with
6 taps of my hammer, twist it counter-clockwise with a wrench to set the
extractor and
further loosen the body, and then pull it out with the vice-grips - about two
minutes total,
and the extractor was only $10.



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