christotampabay
Apr 6, 2009, 08:04 AM
OK, I've searched this topic a lot and No one ever seems to answer the most important detail. They all just gloss over how to remove the bathtub drain lever. HOW??
The faceplate is off. There is the stuff attatched to the lever going down the pipe behind the tub to the drain. It isn't going to come out just by pulling it. I promise you that something else needs to be done to it to get it out. I can see 2 long flat metal pieces and then like a long threaded rod between them. They all go down toward the drain. I pull on them. I can hear the "clank" noise of whatever it's attatched to (plug?) down there with maybe a few 1/8ths of an inch of play. I have a hard time believing anyone would have made this thing so that I would have to rip the wall out from behind and cut the pipe to get it out. There has to be a way to remove it and no one ever explains how. Please help a guy out.
I need to auger the drain because it drains slowly and I've tried both caustuic and enzymatic treatments. The only way to auger it is through where the level goes down, right?
The faceplate is off. There is the stuff attatched to the lever going down the pipe behind the tub to the drain. It isn't going to come out just by pulling it. I promise you that something else needs to be done to it to get it out. I can see 2 long flat metal pieces and then like a long threaded rod between them. They all go down toward the drain. I pull on them. I can hear the "clank" noise of whatever it's attatched to (plug?) down there with maybe a few 1/8ths of an inch of play. I have a hard time believing anyone would have made this thing so that I would have to rip the wall out from behind and cut the pipe to get it out. There has to be a way to remove it and no one ever explains how. Please help a guy out.
I need to auger the drain because it drains slowly and I've tried both caustuic and enzymatic treatments. The only way to auger it is through where the level goes down, right?