help with tap head kit

[bammyjastard]

hello guys, complete novice here hoping somebody can point out my schoolboy error.

bought a pair of traditional tap heads for my bath as a change of washer didn't solve the drip on hot tap.

fitted the reducing bush and bigger washer and stepped spacer supplied, so that it would fit the exixsting tap body.

screwed new set into old bath tap, replaced collar, screw etc., and before turning water back on, turned the tap....it just kept on turning. took it apart again and lower half of valve was just sitting loose in tap body.

Have I just bought the wrong thing?

Many thanks

Chris

 

[PlumbBobBob]

possibly the bush you used makes the tap valve higher than if no bush used. can you get a different bush? what size taps have you got what size valves?

 

[jtsplumbing]

For what thesr conversion kits cost you can buy a Pr of new taps !

 

[Best]

Perhaps the new works are too short for old tap body - if the washer doesn't reach the seating of tap, the works come apart.
As Jtsplumbing has said, a new pair taps are often cheaper!
Only use conversion works if they match old tap for depth inside.

 

[REDSAW]

your taps still dripping because it needs reseating.