| I actually was going to make this very post about what you just said. That idea came to me after I quit posting fo the day. Yes. That is a possibility I suppose. The water is trying to get out the easiest path it can.
BUT - this theory sounds good, until I think of cases where I have turned on tub/showers with those shutoff valves at the shower head and had 100% backpressure to the valves and no water coming out the stems. So that said, you still really need to recheck how the packing system is done/principle on how it works and gets tight, inside the valve stems. |