Tempress II Rough In Giving Me Fits

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Joe Repac

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There are several showers in my home that use the Tempress II rough-in as used by Newport Brass. My daughter's bathroom had water damage from what we thought was a roof leak. She went away to college and the damage was repaired. She noticed her shower was dripping while visiting home and I replaced the cartridge. It fixed the drip but noticed when the shower is turned on it spews water from the cartridge stem. It wasn't a roof leak after all that caused the damage.

Where is the seal for the cartridge stem? I ordered a new front face cover for the valve since the old one is heavily corroded. The new cover in theory has an o-ring from the online picture. I assume this is the seal but where does it go?
 

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The cartridge should have its own O ring.

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I looked at illustration 3 that Terry and others have posted on the Tempress II. It looks like mine was missing o-rings item #8 and item #4. It looks like #8 is the stem seal but not sure what #4 is for.
 

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I had same issue...I reused the o ring that was on before as there was no new one with the replacement valve. There doesn't appear to be a seal seat. Someone told me that when you screw the esthescuon on it presses the o ring into position...no leaks but scary....my issue now is that cold and hot got mixed up!
 

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This is turning into an archeological project. The vendor shipped me a Tempress vs Tempress II front cover. I'm not quite sure what the difference is. It has a nylon bushing along with an o-ring in the middle. Fortunately, I have other showers in the house and the new cartridge seals the hot and cold off so there is no leaks into the mixing chamber. I will go back to this later in the week.
 

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Well after the Christmas holidays, other more urgent house repairs, and Covid, I finally got back to this repair. My problem is the shaft seal on the cartridge. I pulled the Temperess II valve apart again and it had the same shaft seal as the Tempress. No Tempress nor Tempress II diagrams I could find describes the shaft seal the nylon bushing that retains it. I pulled the plastic retainer and o-ring off of the Tempress and installed it on the Tempress II. I tried using it and there are no leaks.
 
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