Plumbing advice

[midnight Target]

I have a Moen shower faucet that is only delivering hot water. It is not installed "upside down" as some web sites have suggested. I have it to the point where I got the pin out of the white plastic at the front. It is my understanding that the mechanism should now slide out. It doesn't want to. Any suggestions?

[Thruster]

If memory serves, there's a "C" clip on the cartridge. If that's already off. Pull a bit harder.

[midnight Target]

Yes by pin I meant the C-clip. So it should be free to move?

[Thruster]

If it's been there a while it's probably just stuck. There is a tool that Moen makes for aiding in removal but I've never used it. But yeah, once the retainer's off, there's nothing keeping the cartridge in there.

[midnight Target]

OK, thanks.

[culero]

I've got a great little home-made tool for stuff like that - a thread adapter that screws onto a slidehammer, and replaces the tension adjuster screw on a pair of Vice-Grips. Take the screw out of the pliers, insert the adaptor, clamp the pliers on the stubborn object, and slap that slidehammer. Boom!

[midnight Target]

I was actually thinking of adapting a dent puller I have to screw into the post at the center of the mechanism.

[culero]

That works even better! Its just not as "universal" in its application.

[FiLtH]

    Those can be mean. Just hope the guy who roughed it in braced it good so you can yank the piss out of it. She will come.