Sink Stopper Won T Seal

The gasket located under the stopper may also need to be adjusted.

Sink stopper won t seal. It s easy to fix a bathroom sink drain plug that s leaking. Find replacement parts on amazon. Peek above the sink to make sure the stopper is fully closed and that the pop up rod is pushed all the way down 3. This is a repair you can do yourself.

Remove stopper from drain. If a sink won t hold water look up behind the sink with a flashlight if needed to identify the following parts. 5 shows the gasket pushed out of position. Water may leak or refuse to drain around a sink pop up for a number of reasons.

A sink stopper mechanism isn t difficult to understand. The clicker may have been over tightened causing the. A sink stopper with a push pull rod control at the faucet is a great modern convenience. Simply remove the plunger clean and if necessary replace.

The culprit is often a buildup of hair around the base of the stopper or the pivot rod mechanism. Fix a sink stopper. If water still does not hold in the sink the next check will be the actual stopper seal. The ball rod is inserted into the side of the drain and attached with a nut.

Unthread the sink stopper s tailpipe from the underside of the drain. But sink stoppers fail. To reach the stopper the ball rod needs to be removed first. Now that the bottom of the tailpipe if free from the p trap loosen the nut that connects it to the threaded bottom of the sink drain.

A pivot rod that connects to the back of the drain pipe a perforated strap a clevis and a screw that locks the strap onto the stopper rod. The lever hooks onto the stopper through a hole or hook on the bottom of a long plastic flange that s attached to the stopper. 6 shows the gasket seated correctly between the clicker assembly and the stopper. The photo on the right fig.

The ball rod holds the stopper in the drain. Gasket to push outward. Click here for maintenance and service parts. How to fix a sink pop up drain stopper.

It moves the stopper in the opposite direction to the lift rod. When they do they are often unsightly and an irritation. To remove unthread the rod nut pull the ball rod out and remove the stopper from the drain. Most sink stopper tailpipes are made of pvc and will be connected to the drain with a pvc compression nut that you can loosen by hand.

If your sink pop up won t pop up or seat properly fixing it is quite easy usually just a matter of adjusting a few parts. Remove clip from ball rod.