orangetrader wrote:
My kitchen faucet is dripping. It is a single lever Delta faucet.
Sometimes it drips faster sometimes slower, if I push the lever down
and hard sometimes it will stop the drip - until I have to use it
again.

Is this something that will require a replacement of the faucet, or
replacement of some parts? I plan to shut off the water supply,
there is a bolt at the base of the lever that I will open up and see.
But not sure what I am looking for. I tried to remove the entire
faucet unit but the "ring" at the base under the counter top is real
tight and nothing I have will free it, I have a wrench large enough
but not at the angle where I can apply any leverage and no room to
have any "bite". Is there something I can do to fix this from the
top?

Thanks,

O

What other posters said about the ball and the two rubber pieces with
springs under them is pretty accurate. You can go to Delta's website and
they have detailed instructions for this with illustrations. If you don't
know your model number, find one by using the pictures. If it looks like
yours, chances are it's built the same way.

The only other thing I would add is that is that if you have a spray hose,
and the water from the faucet does not go off completely when you use it, or
it has little pressure, you might want to replace the diverter too once you
have everything apart. It's cheap and you've already done the labor by
taking everything else apart. Once the faucet itself is lifted up, the
diverter just pulls out from the front.