Having problems removing a moen shower valve. It is a 8 yr old positive moen valve. I remove the turn dial and the pin. Valve will not move. What is holding it ?

The "O" rings are stiff making all cartridge hard to pull out. You can do one of 2 things:

1. Screw original screw ( the one that holds handle on cartridge ) back onto the tip of the cartridge. Take 12" Channel Locks, grip it tight - and pull on it.

2. Go to Home Depot. They sell a tool designed to remove "frozen" Moen cartridges. It costs around $15.00.

Let us know how you did... Good Luck !

Hello bjaoe,

Milo stated very well, here is a link for Moen faucets cartridges removal and installation, click on the link when it opens click on the watch (2) click on the start, choose on your faucet and click on start will show you the removal and installation, done't forget to shut off water to your faucet before you start, god Luck.

John

Installation Help / Animated Tutorial - Installing the Moen 1225 / 1200 Cartridge

Moen shower cartridges are held in place by a clip on top of the valve. When looking straight in at the valve stem the clip will look like a very smll rod runnning left to right around the outter top surface of the valve body, stick a very small screw driver below the rod and pry down. The clip will lift and then you grab it with a needle nose pyler. The cartridge may still not want to come out so Milo's step 1 and 2 may still be needed but nothing will budge until you remove the clip.

ballengerb1: I think he said he removed the clip ("pin")

Milo, duh, my bad! I apparently missed the forest because of the trees. You are right, the O rings are swollen and crudded up.

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Go to Home Depot. They sell a tool designed to remove "frozen" Moen cartridges. It costs around $15.00.

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And they look like this. Good luck, Tom