Trip Lever Drain Stopper Stuck

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Trip lever drain stopper stuck.

Hiram oh the trip lever waste and overflow drain plunger will not come out of drain pipe. It s probably been many years since it was used to stop the water in the tub. If you have not used the lever in a while you might find that it is stuck. It can be pretty annoying when you take a shower and the water starts puddling around your feet.

This is usually due to the spring mechanism behind the faceplate. Repairing the stuck bathtub drain lever requires removing the entire mechanism from the tub. Can t remove trip lever drain stopper in bathtub. But after cleaning it and finding nothing you probably realized that it is just that the drain stopper is stuck in the closed position.

I removed the face plate and tried to pull out the rod and stopper but it will not budge. Https amzn to 2yq7e9u order clr here. A sink stopper mechanism isn t difficult to understand. I m trying to fix our stuck bathtub drain switch so we can give our dog a real bath but the switch is stuck.

When you push or pull on the lift rod it activates a lever the extends through the drain tailpiece. Bathtub trip lever stopper stuck in overflow pipe. 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. Any bathtub drain stopper that doesn t do its job is an annoying inconvenience.

After watching a few videos on the internet it seemed pretty simple. Some drains have stoppers that are spring loaded operated by a push of the toe or by hand while others use a trip lever mounted on the bathtub s overflow plate. The lever on your bathtub operates the hidden stopper in the drain. Have taken off overflow to try to remove the mechanism.

Usually the problem is easy to fix though the procedures vary depending on what type of tub stopper you have. If it won t go down you probably thought it was clogged with hair or something. My bathtub won t drain due to a stuck lever type drain stopper.