Customer Reviews for DANCO 4Z-24H/C Hot/Cold Stem for American Standard Faucets

Don't buy these get the OEM parts instead. Replaced both the hot and the cold sides with these Danco parts 8 months ago after one of the original AS parts started to drip. HD was out of the AS brand so I got these. Now the hot side, over the span of a week, has completely failed. HD carries the AS brand and they're the same price. I don't know why I bought these yet again except I guess I was annoyed and wasn't thinking. Our house was purchased in 2005 so the AS parts were at least that old. American Standard 994053-0070A is the part number. These are set for the hot side but how do you use them on the cold side then? Remove the clip and the grey metal ring. You'll notice the ring is square inside and matches the brass stem. Move the ring two points over on the stem, you'll twist the stem to do this, and now your cold side will work as expected. You can also install the unit in the faucet and play with it until it lines up the way you want.

While this isn't an OEM, it replaced an OEM that was sent defective. The product installed quickly and solved the water flow issue.

Direct fit replace American Standard

This part was very simple to replace except for one issue. If I was only replacing the HOT side I would of been done in less than 2 minutes, but I was replacing the COLD side and this comes PRESET for the HOT side and therefore when I first installed it the way it came, it was turning on and off in reverse of what it was supposed to do. After I finally found out what to do it was PERFECT. Here's what you need to do if you are replacing the "COLD" stem. at the base of the Chrome stem, there's a Copper Retaining Clip that you remove, then lift up on the flat Chrome-like flat ring and turn it to the opposite end from where it was. Reset the Copper Retaining Clip, then return the complete Stem into the Faucet and put your handle back on. All Done! See Attached Photo of the Copper Retaining Clip and the Chrome-like flat ring. I was going berserk trying to get this information from the Manufacturer's website with NO RESULTS. I hope this was helpful.

The valve leaked right out of the box. The faucet would drip when turned off, and only way to fix it would have been to modify it somehow. Got the factory A.S. valve instead, which is actually cheaper, and it worked right out of the box. These aftermarket valves simply aren't worth the hassle.

worked out perfectly.

Springs on stem are dry, hard to use on faucet.

NO problems installed all of them and found out I had more problems than I thought, had to change a valve body. However, everything worked. Good product will buy again.

Poor quality. The water is dripping, it is not well made, the ceramic valve does not rotate always to the same stoping point, it over rotates and it drips.

Faucets still leaking, just bought a new faucet instead.

Bought two, had to return one because it was faulty. Luckily I had a backup. DANCO needs better quality control.

I have gone through about 6 of these valve stems...I think my faucet may be worn out, as most of these stems do not shut off entirely. One of them shuts off, but continuing in the "OFF" direction, the water flows again.

The first one lasted only a few months before malfunctioning. We will see on the replacement.

The stem is leaking when completely closed. Need to adjust the closing not to leaks.

Was going to use to replace leaky shower valves. After reversing one’s open close direction now it leaks. And the the stem broke on 2 out of the 4 I purchased. Old ones were solid brass stems. Homedepot doesn’t offer the good ones. So will look else where or have to replace whole shower assembly.

Replaced same item that was installed just 6 months ago

Exactly what I wanted and fit perfectly.

The stem is easy to install, but there are no directions on how to change from hot to cold. It took me several minutes see that the springs clip had to be removed in order to change the flow.

I had to ask DANCO to fix the two leaky stems I bought from Home Depot.

Very exacting replacement and easy replacement

it served the purpose of a dripping faucet . but not exactly what i needed

Leaked worse then the original