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Shower drain leaking??
I have a 1997 liberty and if appears the shower drain is leaking. I have checked about everywhere else for the possible leak the washer and dryer are dry the bathroom sink and lines are dry and I see no other possibilities. It looks like the chrome ring in the shower is removable. It appears to thread into a brass cup underneath the shower. It looks like the chrome ring has corroded and is possibly where the leak is? Has anyone had any problems in this area that could help? It looks like the chrome ring screws in to the brass cup. I would be concerned with electrolysis.I was wondering if there is a special tool that will help remove that chrome ring?
Thanks,
Rick
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where are you seeing water at? Much more common is the seat/ledge is not sealed well under the lip of the seat and water rolls around the edge and gets under that area.
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Water is showing up in the bedroom area against the wall that separates the shower from the bedroom. The other day after two people took a shower when he walked in the bedroom the floor is a wood laminate and water was coming up between the slats of the wood in the bedroom.
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After thinking about what you were saying of water running around the lip, I think we’re talking about a leak in the same area. Is there a way to remove that chrome trim and reseal it?
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I sustained the same leak symptoms and suspected the drain. Plugged the drain and filled the shower with a couple inches of water and waited, and waited, and waited. Finally determined the leak was around the mixing valve trim and fabricated a seal.
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The leak may be somewhere other than the drain,,,, but on ours it is definately the drain.
And looking at the picture your drain is in the same shape as ours was before the threaded flange piece cracked and broke loose from the brass drain pipe and is now seperated from the shower base. It has dropped down about 3/4″ from the shower pan so the drain water leaks out from under the floor into the lower compartment.
Has anyone had to replace this drain, and do you have to remove all the tile floor in the shower ? I am going to try to remove the rest of the threaded piece and see if there are any threads left in the brass low profile drain piece. Maybe machine a brass flange piece if we can not buy one.
I have left a couple of messages with Bill at Liberty but so far not received a reply.
I have been concerned about this area because of the rust, since I first cleaned the drain when we bought the coach but did not understand what the rust was from. Does not make sense to me to have any steel fittings in this area. The rest of the drain is brass and then PVC. And now here we are with a broken drain.
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I understand the leak is the rust area below the top welded seam.
One of the amazing products we sold at NAPA was JB Weld, a two part epoxy sealant. If the area could be cleaned of rust and etched JB might be the ticket.
Cleaning that small area with a Dramel drill and using one of the many bits could work in that small area. The most important thing is preparing the surface for bonding, it must be clean. There are also Permatex products that etch rust areas prior to painting or bonding.
Once JB Weld is cured it’s the closes thing to a metal weld as you can get.
I carry JB Weld in my spare parts bus kit.
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The leak is not just a small hole,,, the whole pipe broke and the elbow has dropped down 1/2″ from the shower base.
Just talked with Bill at Liberty,,,, says the pipe that broke was made from stainless steel and welded to a plate that forms the seal beneath the tile.
They must have used a low grade 400 series stainless for it to rust like this. A 316 stainless would have lasted forever. It is disappointing that an item that is this hard to repair if it leaks was made with an inferior material. The cost is only a few dollars difference. It makes me wonder if they understood the difference in grades of stainless.
My concern would be for anyone else with showers that have the rusty looking pipe. It will eventually leak !!!
Just remove the 4 prong strainer and look in the drain. There is not much you can do ahead of time, except maybe cleaning it with the rust remover and coat the inside with JB Weld to help prevent the rust as suggested above. It is a welded assembly so it can not be easily removed and replaced ahead of time.
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On our 2000 Liberty a very wet ( flooded } floor situation developed adjacent to the shower. It turned out to be a failed drain connection from the metal shower outlet sreen device and the elbow below it was formerly connected to. We made permanant repairs using a SS tube extension and epoxy to re-connect the drain to the seperated elbow below. Liberty indicated that this event was a mystery to them. So we made the repair ourselves through the floor drain opening. No further problems have occured since.
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