Kitchen Sink Leak...How to Replace Drain Pipe

we're gonna pop this off and we're gonna see what the deal is hey folks that fix a guy here and I wanted to start off by saying thank you to everybody that watches my videos really it is a pleasure to help I just am super grateful and I'm really excited to see how the channel is growing and all the awesome feedback like really the comments mean so much man I think you want to talk about a guy's heart that's swollen with happiness like that's me I mean I know the negative is gonna come but it hasn't yet and I really like that I I really try to make sure that I can convey how much I really want to help and how much I love helping and on that note I had a friend call me this weekend we ended up facetiming he showed me a plumbing issue that he had underneath his kitchen sink he had a broken tubular plastic p-trap that something really funky happened with and I just wanted to show you that today so come along let's get to fixing [Music] [Applause] okay so I've come over to my friends house and they had a small drip right here right around where the p-trap connects the j2 and so we're gonna pop this off and we're gonna see what the deal is and so right away we can see that there is this is not correct oh so let's just take this off and I'll show you what I'm talking about you can see that this right here this would have worked here and it but it did work with for them for a little while but that's not the way that's intended if you look at that and you look at that this is the same piece and this actually just snapped off on them for some reason so we're gonna take a look at that too and try to figure out why this completely broke I mean it could have just been pinched in some way it could have been it was I don't know it could have been something so we're gonna get this hooked up swapped out and we'll put it back together okay so since we have it we're just going to take the p-trap off as well and we'll replace that cuz it all comes in a kit so you get the p-trap the J tube and two new washers with two new nuts in a cave so Simmons to install this you just take one of the nuts and put it this way because it's going to connect to the p-trap like that will take the block not with the washer and we'll put this to where it's going to connect back here to the ABS and whatever you install these just make sure if there's a babble on it just make sure the bevel is going to go to the piece that you're hooking up so the opposite side of the nut is where the bevel goes and so then we'll just put this right back in here and don't tighten it down yet and we'll just get a measurement on where our p-traps gonna go which that actually worked out really well one more knot in washer remember the bevel side actually is going to go down in to this bevel right here so you can see that that actually that bevel is going to fit right down into that piece so we just pop that on here bullets and so this Jay to piece this Jay to piece right here it's kind of got a built in washer already right and you just want to make sure that that's down in there and it's setting even and then just screw in place okay now we'll tighten up all these nuts and we'll give it a test okay so there we go we're we're draining are we drain let's just fill it up again give it one more test okay so I think we're good to go quick fix just so happened that this just broke off right and so good to go okay folks so that was a simple replacement of a plastic tubular peach wrap assembly a couple things to remember one you might need a saw or some kind of a cutter this particular instance I didn't have to have it second thing is you want to make sure that those little plastic washers that go with the nut to tighten everything down you want to make sure that bevel is actually going down into the fitting it's not on the nut side the nut side has the flat side okay I really hope this video helps if you can please subscribe to the channel click the like button we would really appreciate it I hope this video helped you and I hope this video allows you to help someone else thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon