Ralph Vart
New Member
Hi. Maybe I should start a new thread, but I am still trying to get the tub drain to stop leaking at where the drain shoe enters the tee. I took it apart and put in a new ABS trap with slight different lengths and angles of pipe. But the drain still has a very slight leak from where the drain shoe pipe enters the tee. I tried putting some pipe dope on the threads of the nut also. QUESTION: could I use a sealant inside the joint around the black rubber compression gasket, such as plumbers putty or silicone caulk or graphite plumbing string? I tried to make sure the pipe from the drain shoe to the tee is not entering the tee at an angle or racking. The nut threads were easy to engage. But probably it is not perfect. Also, the drain shoe pipe doesn't seem to have much, if any, downward slope to the tee and I can see maybe a quarter inch of water when I look down from the tub into the drain. But that is the way the drain shoe attached to tub and it didn't want to take a different angle. The only structural thing I can think of in this mess is that the drain shoe pipe is a tad bit too long and causing itself to rack when I tighten things up. But that seems like a long shot. I dry fitted everything together before gluing the trap and before tightening all the other parts. Thanks for any advice.