Toilet problem

SKYBOW

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Remodeled the bathroom floor. Toilet sat dry for about 2 months. When I replaced it it leaked where the tank and the bowl meet. I replaced the 3 bolts that hold them together along with the rubber v shaped gasket and the flapper valve. No leaks but now when I flush there is no flow down from the lip of the bowl. Everything else is normal just no flow from the bowl lip down. I put some silicone on the v-shaped gasket when I installed it. Could the squeeze out be blocking a galley way to the rim?
Thanks
 
(quoted from post at 12:56:27 03/23/13) Remodeled the bathroom floor. Toilet sat dry for about 2 months. When I replaced it it leaked where the tank and the bowl meet. I replaced the 3 bolts that hold them together along with the rubber v shaped gasket and the flapper valve. No leaks but now when I flush there is no flow down from the lip of the bowl. Everything else is normal just no flow from the bowl lip down. I put some silicone on the v-shaped gasket when I installed it. Could the squeeze out be blocking a galley way to the rim?
Thanks
omething is blocking it. Maybe silicone but more likely some other stuff/thing.
 
I recently replaced a 28 year old toilet. Let it sit oustide, got water in it, froze and broke the rim. Good thing, the flapper had leaked and the inside of the ring was full of lime, blocking the holes. Seen this more than once.
 
Pretty good odds that while setting dry for 2 months some calcium or other crud dried out & plugged the holes.
 
This is an interesting and funny story. That kind of work can be frustrating at times. Several years back we had a toilet that would flush fine at times and then would not flush at all. Plunge it and would maybe work awile again. Finally pulled the stool and took outside. Inside I found a pinback button that was just a little smaller than the opening and would act like a butterfly and would be either closed or would open. It had belonged to daughter-in-law. She had unknowingly dropped it in toilet. It was required to wear and work and she said she could not find it, wondered where it went. I ask her if she wanted it back, and she declined. Put back in service and toilet worked fine.
 
Why do people want to put pucky, goop, glue, bonding agents, silicone, JB weld and dope on everything?
Why not assemble it dry like it was before and like millions and millions of toilets are?
I've installed a hundred new toilets and fixed scores of used ones and never felt the need to use pucky there.
 
Try pouring LCR down the overflow stand pipe in the tank. Let it set for twenty minuets and see if it flushes.
 
(quoted from post at 14:28:22 03/23/13) Why do people want to put pucky, goop, glue, bonding agents, silicone, JB weld and dope on everything?
Why not assemble it dry like it was before and like millions and millions of toilets are?
I've installed a hundred new toilets and fixed scores of used ones and never felt the need to use pucky there.

Maybe someone told him that Ultradog put pucky on his?
 
Mine was a Christmas candle - about 2" dia, 4" long. Couldn't reach it or dislodge it from either top or bottom. Had to put in a new toilet. Only discovered what it was when son shot up the old one with shotgun slugs. Right in the tightest part of the bend!
 
A canning jar lid drove me crazy for about a month. I think my oldest son dropped it in there at about age 2. Finally took the toilet outside and used a sledge hammer before I found what was in it.
Richard
 
I pulled out a toilet to see what was stuck in it. One of my kids had dropped a toy figurine of the Penguine, from the Batman movie. In the movie he lived in the sewers of Gotham City.
 
A co-worker on the last week he worked at my shop dropped his cell phone in the toilet as he was flushing. It was a waterproof one, (and was in the top of the S, above the water line) so it was still working the next day when the plumber came and removed the toilet. He got handed the bill, and the next night he left his phone on his bumper. You guessed it, his tough phone got run over.... Woulda been better off not coming in his last week.

Honestly, I'd have a hard time holding that up to my face after it was in a toilet that long...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I replaced mine last week. The latest tree hugging water saving taller madel on sale at Menard's for 89 dollars. Complete. Took two huge young guys at the store to load it in the back of the Tahoe. 4x8 plywood ramp to get it out.
 
LOL
Maybe my answer was a bit sardonic.
Wednesday I gutted a bathroom I'm remodeling and had to spend a couple of hours scraping the panel adhesive off the studs before I can rerock the place. Removing the rock left lots of paper and chunks of gypsum on the studs.
Whoever remodeleled it it the past must have figured if a few sheetrock screws were good then
Lots of screws and gobs of liquid nails was surely better.
Grrr!
 
Funny you say that - as I was reading people breaking them open, I had in the back of my head that the best way to break up a toilet is to shoot it. That porcelain stuff really explodes. A very satisfying target.
 

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