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Please can some advise how I remove the mixer tap above these images. This retaining bracket is fixed on well and I don’t think there will be room for it to spin around. The hot water flexi seems to have come loose from the tap as it is leaking quite heavily. Unless something has failed inside the tap. I made sure it was not water coming through from above from the seals. I have turned off the hot water isolating valve. I assumed it would be a box spanner but I can’t see the nut? There is some winged plastic clip in this metal bracket as well. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot. Phil
 

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Top side through the hole on the back that’s normally for the push / pull waste rod
 
Top side through the hole on the back that’s normally for the push / pull waste rod
The push pull rod did come out of that bracket you are spot on. But I assumed the bracket would be bracing the tap aswell. Do you think I need to ignore that bracket altogether and see if there is a nut past the bracket through the hole? And get a box spanner up there somehow. It’s all very tight.
The leak came from nowhere can the flexi tales work themselves loose from the tap? If the pipe is knocked, I’m hoping I just need to nip it up. I imagined if something had failed in the tap the cold would be leaking too but that is fine and working.
 
The push pull rod did come out of that bracket you are spot on. But I assumed the bracket would be bracing the tap aswell. Do you think I need to ignore that bracket altogether and see if there is a nut past the bracket through the hole? And get a box spanner up there somehow. It’s all very tight.
The leak came from nowhere can the flexi tales work themselves loose from the tap? If the pipe is knocked, I’m hoping I just need to nip it up. I imagined if something had failed in the tap the cold would be leaking too but that is fine and working.

if you put an Allen key down from the top side of the tap through the rod hole you will be able to undo it,
 

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