Jason and the Toiletnauts, Take 2
Feb. 15th, 2005 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaThe Toilet From Hell was acting up again. It would flush, but then the bowl wouldn't empty all the way, and after a while a certain funk was beginning to be emitted from its, er, bowels. I suspected a break somewhere inside the tank innards that was breaking a suction, and lo and behold, I found one. A crack in a piece I had wrestled with on the last attempt, I must have broken it. Some steel epoxy leak filler, and that was done, but then... I couldn't get it back together.
I should have read my last post about the Evil Turlet, because it was the same damned problem - the seal on the bottom has to be put on the pipe after the pipe has been placed through the bottom of the tank - which requires taking the tank off. Again.
So, I get it all apart, get it all together, finally get the leaks taken care of, and... realize that it's never quite shutting off. Somehow, in all of my jiggling and juggling in there, the old original inlet valve washer gave up the ghost. *sigh* I pull it, and... I can't figure out how to get the washer out. I mean really, this is stupid - every washer is replaceable. I just can't figure out how to get this one out of the assembly.
Off I go, feeling sheepish, to the plumbing store. Guess what - the old original part was made so that you couldn't replace the washer. This falls into the WTF? category. Big brass piston, widdle biddy washer, have to replace the whole damned thing. Fine. $11, but a new part.
It works now, and oddly enough, the new part doesn't fit quite right... but that's okay. Because the misalignment means that I can set the tank float to use 1/2 the water it was before, and *still* empty the bowl and get it clean. Woot! I've been trying for three years to set that water level lower, but it wasn't going to let me do it. Now I can. Huzzah.
I should have read my last post about the Evil Turlet, because it was the same damned problem - the seal on the bottom has to be put on the pipe after the pipe has been placed through the bottom of the tank - which requires taking the tank off. Again.
So, I get it all apart, get it all together, finally get the leaks taken care of, and... realize that it's never quite shutting off. Somehow, in all of my jiggling and juggling in there, the old original inlet valve washer gave up the ghost. *sigh* I pull it, and... I can't figure out how to get the washer out. I mean really, this is stupid - every washer is replaceable. I just can't figure out how to get this one out of the assembly.
Off I go, feeling sheepish, to the plumbing store. Guess what - the old original part was made so that you couldn't replace the washer. This falls into the WTF? category. Big brass piston, widdle biddy washer, have to replace the whole damned thing. Fine. $11, but a new part.
It works now, and oddly enough, the new part doesn't fit quite right... but that's okay. Because the misalignment means that I can set the tank float to use 1/2 the water it was before, and *still* empty the bowl and get it clean. Woot! I've been trying for three years to set that water level lower, but it wasn't going to let me do it. Now I can. Huzzah.