Aloha Dale, Oi, it is the stop cock, and it was reported to me, that there was no screw in the middle of the handle to remove. Hmm, I looked after reading your email, and there is a screw, which I have removed and replaced the washer. I'll be going to home depot tomorrow to get the replacement ring to reconnect the tank and the stool, and will try to remove the bolts and supply line nut before I go in case I have to get replacements. You guys are the best...
At 12:39 PM 10/24/2009, you wrote: > > >A few things. > >1) There will be a couple of bolts hanging down under the back of >the stool. These come through the bottom of the tank. If they are >not too rusted they should remove and allow you to lift the tank. >They don't want to be too tight or they will crack the porcelain >tank or the stool. > >There is also a nut which holds the supply line to the float valve >apparatus inside the tank too. It needs to be removed. The tank will >then lift off of the stool. > >There will be a rubber ring, more recently it is usually made of >neoprene foam of some sort which is tapered and fits between the >tank and the stool. You will want to empty the tank fully before >disassembling the tank from the stool and take care when >reassembling not to tighten the tank to the stool so tightly as to crack them. > >2) Now, the valve. Are you talking about the stop cock out of the >wall which controls the water to the toilet or are you talking about >the fittings inside the toilet tank? > >If the valve on the wall, the stop cock, it is probably soldered to >the pipe sticking out of the wall and you will damage it and the >pipes trying to remove it with a wrench. Only compression fittings >will disconnect that way. > >More likely, if it is leaking you need to remove the valve stem and >replace a washer inside there and possibly the packing, probably a >small rubber 'O' ring along with a touch of plumbers grease.If it >isn't leaking while shut off then there is no need to change the >valve. It has to be the stem packing or the connection on down >stream to the tank. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Betsy Whitney >To: blindhandyman-yahoogroups.com >Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:16 PM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Loose toilet tank > >Aloha all, >This is a bit of a long story, but I'm venting along the way. > >Well, my first mistake was telling "he who knows everything" that I >was going to replace the supply-line valve on the toilet because it >was leaking. Not a big deal, just get the spare one out of the >storage room and replace it. > >He wanted to be so helpful, so he went to the storage room and said, >"Gosh, there doesn't seem to be one. You must have used it on the >kitchen sink when you put the new faucet in and forgot to get another. > >I knew we had purchased two for that job and there was another one, >but I had to go to another island the next day, so just shut the >water off to the toilet and decided to deal with it later. While I >was away, he went to the store and reported that there were so many >different ones, he didn't know what to buy. When I got back I found >the one we already had and he ran off to the bathroom to be the hero >and replace the valve. In the process, he managed to shove hard >enough on the tank that it broke the seal between the tank and the >bowl. He tried to convince me that it had been leaking from there all >the time as the water was running down between the tank and the bowl. >Yeah, right!! > >So, I know nothing about that seal between the tank and the bowl. It >is an American Standard. I'm not sure how old it is, but I've been >here 12 years, and it was here awhile before I moved in. Any >suggestions are much appreciated. Oh, and by the way, he did not >manage to get the old valve off and it is soaking with liquid wrench. >fortunately, we have two bathrooms. >Betsy > >Teamwork: Together we achieve the extraordinary. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
