Repair outside sillcock/spigot?
 

the faucet is leaking from where the shaft goes into the faucet. In the past I have tightened the small nut just under the faucet handle. This has worked but now seems to be at it's limit. Do I just remove the small hex nut and replace what ever is inside?

The faucet is in a stucco wall and the only part exposed is the spigot only. It appears to me that to replace the faucet I will have to dig out quite a bit of stucco.

So I am hoping it can be a DIY repair.

Let me know what you know about repairing. Thanx.

btk

go to ace or home depot and get the wrapping that goes in the nut. its like thick string. easy dyt

its a very cheap faucet its best to just replace it --it will unscrew from the pipe counter clockwise dont for get to shut off the water first

You must be sure the valve isn't soldered to the supply line/pipe before putting a wrench on that thing. Mine was therefore I twisted my valve off along with the supply pipe. Had to run new piping to fix the thing.

Even if it is a threaded male fitting going into the valve, you must still back up that supply line/pipe with a wrench before applying torque.

Do what Red Tail said.