I FOUND THE LEAK...How to Repair a Bathtub Overflow Drain!

hey folks that fix a guy here if you're new to the channel please click the subscribe button tap that Bell icon and get notifications when the new videos coming out so today we're going to be going over to my neighbor's house we have a deal he proves my fruit trees and I do some plumbing work for him so come along today as we're gonna go check out his tub overflow he says he's noticed a monster leak in his tub whenever he takes a bath and wanted me to check it out so come along let's get to fixin okay so if you follow the overflow up you can see the gasket up there it actually is pulled away from the tub and that's what we're going to be fixing today so I'm gonna go up to the top side and get that hooked up from up above we're right here at the tub drain and overflow and we're just going to be changing out that overflow gasket that we've seen that gap in down below [Music] so right away you can see what the issue is the reason why this did not seal is because this metal retainer right here is actually supposed to be right out here and hold that together and yeah just didn't really know what was going on so let's go ahead and try to get this put back together go ahead and get this flipped and switched the way a little bit so then you can go ahead and take this and just pop it up and there we go with that let's just make sure we bring this in here okay so we weren't able to get that out and we'll just put this retainer clip we're just gonna actually use this again we're gonna put it right back over that but on the outside here after we change the gasket so there's a gasket right inside here that's probably still good especially do they probably never even seen it but just pop that out there and we're gonna actually it's in great shape it's not even been depressed at all okay so while I'm sitting here editing I realized that I never showed you the way to install this gasket in this video so you can see the shape of this gasket it's like a wedge shape and so you want to make sure the fat side is down on the bottom that way when you go to tighten that together this is super compressed down there and it's just not and it's not gonna allow a lot water to leak through whenever you fill your tub up let's put this back and see what we can do there so you just kind of take this and you just push this back a little bit and just allow this to slide up in there and so now that we have that around that I've got it all pushed in place okay so now now that we've got this looking like this we're just gonna take this retainer clip just slide it back down over that now we're able to take this start tighten it up make sure you do it evenly [Music] okay so now we've got that put back in place that end going anywhere that's sitting pretty darn tasty and now we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna stick the cover piece back on get this all tightened up and then we're gonna give it a test [Music] same thing with these screws you want to make sure that these screws are both getting tightened equally as soon as we tightened up pretty good so then we'll give it a test and we'll check it below okay so the tub is almost full and we're gonna go downstairs and we're going to check the go work flow and make sure there's no leak so you should have water running out that overflow right now and there's water coming through the overflow and there is no water leaking so now you can hear it coming down the overflow into the trap and we've got no water coming out the overflow so that's good mission accomplished alright folks so we're right back where we started at here I had a drain tub overflow gasket available but we didn't have to use it all interviews it was a six in one pretty awesome worked out really well for us today that's not always work out this good I really hope this video helps if you can please subscribe to the channel click the like button it'd be greatly appreciated thank you very much and have a great evening