How To Replace A Super Old Tub Spout!

Now, we're going to try to change the spout real quick. You get down underneath this spout. You look, you can see it's been leaking. It's been going back to the wall for quite some time. It's creating a big old puddle right here on the tub. Not good. Let's try to spin that off real quick. Just score this around the whole thing. Not too heavy because I don't want to damage this plastic. But yeah, you can see it's leaking for a little bit here. Usually I have a strap wrench on me for this. I don't think I got one. I don't have a strap wrench today. This ain't getting put back on. At least not if we can help it. [Music] Oh, well, we're in it now cuz we're through it. If you can see, we're in it. Oh, okay. Well, there we go. We got a portion of that out. Perfect. Came apart in pieces. This is what you get sometimes, folks. You try to change something that's a little bit old. Now you get into it. No more diverter on this bad boy. All right. Hold on. Let's go out to the car real quick. I grabbed a pipe wrench. This is that new extension handle from Milwaukee to give you some more leverage. I'm going to get up on this thing. Let's see what we can do here. Let's be gentle here. Let's not Oh, maybe. Here we go. Just needed some leverage. Come on, baby. Oh, yeah. Wow, man. That was crazy. Yeah, 30 years. Let's see what we got. Oh, of course that's what we got. We have got a very old galvanized nipple that is, of course, just broke off. Well, hopefully there's enough meat there still. That caulk has been on there. This thing ain't moved. That caulk has been on there forever, guys. Like, caulk is king, dude. When it comes to things like this, after a good search for a wire brush, we got something here. Let's just get that as cleaned up as we can. So, we got that cleaned up the best we could. I'm not trying to replace that right now. This will This seems like it would be insane to try to replace. Okay, so what we're going to do here is we are going to we're going get some Teflon on this. Let's go ahead and break a bit of that off. It's not my It's not my favorite tough lawn job here, but you can see we're missing a bit of threads right there. If we can get that locked on, I would be excited. Next, we're going to go with some Megalock Teflon and pipe dope here. I really hope this one is going to work for us. Okay. So, this particular tub spout has this where you can go 1/2 inch or 3/4 or slip, right? It's a slip style as well. It's got all these other little features. Universal was the way to roll here. And now we're going to see because there's not a lot of threads on this. We just need to get this started, get this on, get it tightened as tight as we can. I wish that it was I wish that it was brass. I really do. And it's not going to rust out anymore with it being plastic. So that's fine. All right. That looks like it's good because I don't know how far this is going to go in because we went back as far as we could with that to get it not to leak. I'm going to give this I usually go three I'm go about five six wraps on this. All right. I just want it to work. I'm going to go light mega lock on this as well. Oh yeah, this is great. It's actually worked out really well. Let's give it one more time around. Get it as tight as we can go here. Put pause on it. See if that's straight or not. No. Okay, there we go. Jump out of the tub. Little hot. Little cold. Little shower. I don't see any water coming from the backside, man. Works like it's supposed to. All right. So, now we're going to use some dab quick seal plus. She bought almond easy water cleanup. This is the stuff that I like. Either silic either siliconized acrylic or adhesive caulk. I do not like to use silicone on this job just because you've seen how hard that was to get off, right? I want to know if this thing is leaking. So, I'll leave about a one inch gap in the bottom of this. If it's going to leak, I want to see it. I don't want it to be leaking in the wall. Grab a rag. I like a contractor sponge or a rag. This is what we got. We just I'm going to mold it, shape it all with my fingers anyway. You just want something to wipe this off with. Wish I had that caulking finger right now. All right, perfect. It's good to go. All right, we just leave that right like that. You know, we've got that all cked up. We've got that all cked up. And now we're good to go. Just give it some dry time and that's going to work out great. Well, this goes to show even older things can be repaired, right? A little bit of more time, some patience, and maybe a couple more parts runs than you were expecting, but we could get that all hooked up. Really hope you folks are enjoying the videos. If you could please subscribe, click that like button. We'd love to have you keep coming back. Thank you very much, and we'll see you again real soon.