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How many times have you cursed your plumbing? Many times I would expect. One of those times might deal with the sink stopper. When you pull up on the sink stopper handle to engage the stopper and it doesn’t stop the water. Instead, the handle just drops back down and the stopper lifts back up so that the water just runs down the drain.
You are probably thinking that this is going to kill your weekend, but the reality is that it should take just a few seconds and likely the most difficult part will be getting access under the sink.
A sink stopper works like this: the sink stopper is connected to a pivot rod. This pivot rod has a ball on the end of it allowing it to move up and down. This up and down movement lifts and lowers the stopper. The other end of the pivot rod is connected to the handle. So when you lift the handle, the pivot rod pushes the stopper down closing off the drain. When you push the handle back down, the pivot rod lifts the stopper and allows the water to drain.
The problem is where the pivot rod ball attaches to the drain pipe. The pivot rod is held to this pipe by a cap nut. All you have to do is tighten this cap nut. If you over tighten it, the sink stopper won’t move freely, so tighten it to the point that the sink stopper will move but not so much that the stopper won’t stay in place.
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