LOOSE and LEAKING Plastic Bathroom Sink Drain Repair

hey folks that fix-it guy here if you're new to the channel please click the subscribe button tap that Bell icon and get notifications when a new video is coming out today we're going to be pulling out a pop-up assembly and reinstalling that pop-up assembly I'm not going to be installing a brand new one I'm actually just going to be taking it out cleaning it up and we're gonna put some silicone instead of plumber's putty so we're gonna go ahead I'm gonna walk you through this and let's get to fix it [Music] so what we're looking at here is this pop-up assembly it actually moves very easy and so I noticed that whenever I went to replace the p-trap and so we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna show you just how to pop this apart and actually we're gonna redo it I just don't want any issues and so another thing you can see right over here right away they didn't know what they were doing because they didn't even install this correctly so we're gonna go ahead and and we're just gonna end up taking it out just get that out of our way go ahead and just loosen that up okay so you can see this right here as well we're gonna have to go ahead and take this bar off because we're going to have to pull the stop around so at the same time that you're turning this you want to hold this piece down so you can grab a hold of the stopper up top so you want to take that piece out you still have the stopper in your hand you're just gonna go ahead and pull this out and set it aside just gonna take this bottom and you're gonna push it on up and as you push that on up this piece right here it's going to be exposed and you can go ahead and remove it so I'm just gonna clean all this off so this is actually a Glacier Bay faucet and a lot of times with these plastic tight faucets and there's a ton of flex in them I Solek own them I put a hundred percent silicone right around this top knot right here and then right around this bottom washer right here so I kind of silicone both sides in I'm also gonna go ahead and put a little teflon and some pipe dope right here for when I put these two things together on the sink so first we'll start with this tough line just get a little tough long put on here remember when you're putting tough line on you always want to put it on clockwise same way it's gonna be threading into the pipe that way it doesn't come off whenever you're going to put it together okay we got that all set up in there just a little bit of some meganlocke so what we're gonna do first thing I just like to go around this okay got that all hooked up okay so let me take this we just stick it right up in this hole right like so now we go to right there and you've got this sticking up just get this on get it as tight as you can get it get it set down in place you're gonna hold with one hand making sure this is in the back and you're just gonna start tightening this nut up kind of pulling down and tightening the nut up just keeping everything in place once everything's hand tight just grab a pair of channellocks these are some four twenties make sure it's secure it was pretty tight there looks good you've got a bead that's going the whole way around it it's going to keep that nice and in place you can see that we've got the silicone that's came out all the way around that now what I like to do is just take paper towel and just go right around that with one and then with two so get that all off of there it's already the whole way around it and you just let that dry this silicones 100% silicone mold free supposed to last for 10 years and it's water ready in 30 minutes so now you've got that put back together so we got the stopper here I'm gonna take the stopper you're gonna put this side in the back and just set it straight down in there okay so now that we have that stopper in place now we want to put this rod back in place so you just grab the rod because that was already down it's kind of burning in place so then we just tighten that down and the pop-up is ready to go okay so now to put this clip in you just take it put in one side there's two holes find the the matching hole on this long piece right here and then just kind of clip it together and put the back side in and we're gonna roll I didn't going anywhere alright folks so easy enough Tora out the old one cleaned it up silicone it up put it back together give a little bit of dry time and it works like a champ I really hope this video helps if you could please subscribe to the channel click the like button it would be greatly appreciated thank you very much and have a great day