I just took an old crane drexel sink off the wall and replaced it for the time being ( I want to fix the older sink) with a cheap vanity/sink set. All that was easy enough, but now to my chagrin I can't finish the job.

The p trap is too low, the extension pipe from the sink doesn't go all the way down to fit into it. I can line it up no problem, but the two parts don't meet, and so there is no working basin.

Is there such a thing as an extension for the extension? As in, a little tube that will make the drain pipe that came with the sink a bit longer, so I can fit it into the p-trap?

sarahwells

That is IT! That's the one, at least if it's the one that mixes the water inside the porcelain. I can't get the valve body (or bodies) off,or at least couldn't with the sink on the wall - which is what I will have to do to make the sink useable again. There's place that machines new ones ( and makes high quality replacments for the canopy handles, too.) The porcelain is in perfect condition. and I've always liked the sink.

speedball1

Hi Sarah,

You're gonna need a special tool called a "basin wrench"(see image) to get up there to remove the retaining nuts that are recessed. This tool can be purchased at any plumbing supply house, Good luck, Tom

sarahwells

Heh. Went into Ace again to get a basin wrench. The nut on the old-fashioned crane drexel valve body is big. BEEEEG. The biggest shower valve socket wrench in a set of shower wrenches fiits on it. (1 and 7/16) THe ace guy couldn't tell me what size nuts the ordinary basin wrench in the store would work on, but it looked like no more than an inch. He also denied ever hearing of a nut so big on a lavatory sink and tried to convince me it was 7/8.

To paraphrase Richard Dreyfuss, I'm gonna need a bigger wrench.

speedball1

Sarah,

A basin wrench doesn't have to fit all the way around a nut. All it needs to do is get a purchase on on one corner and a flat surface of the nut. Regards, Tom.