EXACTLY what I'm fighting. Looked online to see what type of coating I could use (silicon, grease, etc...) to prevent that tower from sticking to the bottom seal. Instead, I find this to inform me the deformed seal is the root cause. I've been dealing with this for about a year now. Thanks for the great info!
Thanks for the video, it helped out since I never changed one of these seals before. One thing though the seal is only suppose to go around the fist groove and not all the way to the bottom. The tower won't seal good and reason why it seems like the tank isn't filling up quickly.
Make sure you rotate the seal 360 degrees so it fully seats on the first grove- turning it kinda like a steering wheel. mine would not seal until i did that.
Holy crap. I've been dealing with a phantom flush for weeks after installing a new valve assembly and I just HAPPENED to see your comment on one of the 50 videos I've watched. I think it may have solved my issue. We'll see. Thanks!
I installed the brand new flush valve seal the exact same one you used in the video per your instructions and also some of the comments to make sure I didn't go past the first notch from the top. And now with the new seal installed I do see very minut trickle of water continually coming down from the tank into the bowl so I unfortunately had to resort to using my old flush valve seal and lo and behold the problem stopped unfortunately it's still very difficult to flush the toilet due to the suction. Going to have to research this some more unless somebody has some advice.
Once the rubber (black) seal underneath the flush valve (red) seal gets too deteriorated, it must be replaced also. This may be causing your leakage. At some point, all the bowl components must be replaced. Mine are about 18 years old and getting very close.
Why isn't the tank filling up though in your video? My tank flushes easy too when it's empty, but once it filled up, very hard, my handle hot twisted pressing it down to flush, New handle same hard to flush.
I had a feeling that our handle was going to break bc it does this so I told my husband and he broke it on accident 🙃 so thank you for sharing so we can both learn a lesson and fix it together 😂
EXACTLY what I'm fighting. Looked online to see what type of coating I could use (silicon, grease, etc...) to prevent that tower from sticking to the bottom seal. Instead, I find this to inform me the deformed seal is the root cause. I've been dealing with this for about a year now. Thanks for the great info!
Thanks for the comment. Hope it helps
Thank you for this informative video! I thought I needed to replace the entire flush valve tower to fix the problem! This saved me a ton of work!
Thanks for the video, it helped out since I never changed one of these seals before. One thing though the seal is only suppose to go around the fist groove and not all the way to the bottom. The tower won't seal good and reason why it seems like the tank isn't filling up quickly.
Make sure you rotate the seal 360 degrees so it fully seats on the first grove- turning it kinda like a steering wheel. mine would not seal until i did that.
Holy crap. I've been dealing with a phantom flush for weeks after installing a new valve assembly and I just HAPPENED to see your comment on one of the 50 videos I've watched. I think it may have solved my issue. We'll see. Thanks!
I rotated mine, but maybe I need to to redo it. Getting the phantom flush too
THANK YOU!
Thank you for this video. Saved me so much hassle.
It was driving me crazy. Great easy solution
Thanks for making this video. Very helpful. 👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💯
Exactly what was wrong with mine. Thank you.
Thank you! This is a great help.
Thanks a bunch!! Great tutorial!
Thanks
Thank you Robert. I did it my self 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
THANK YOU!! TOOK ME 3 HARDWARE STORES TO FIND THIS DANG VALVE BUT I DID IT . HOPE YOU COME BACK WITH MORE INFORMAYIVE VIDS. GOD BLESS
Turning the old flush valve seal upside down might also work temporarily until you get a replacement.
I did it. ✌
Perfect. This was exactly what I needed to know after spending 20 minutes on other videos.
I installed the brand new flush valve seal the exact same one you used in the video per your instructions and also some of the comments to make sure I didn't go past the first notch from the top. And now with the new seal installed I do see very minut trickle of water continually coming down from the tank into the bowl so I unfortunately had to resort to using my old flush valve seal and lo and behold the problem stopped unfortunately it's still very difficult to flush the toilet due to the suction. Going to have to research this some more unless somebody has some advice.
Once the rubber (black) seal underneath the flush valve (red) seal gets too deteriorated, it must be replaced also. This may be causing your leakage. At some point, all the bowl components must be replaced. Mine are about 18 years old and getting very close.
Those valves make me nervous. TBH, I usually find a way to prop the float up. Ya, that has risks also.
Great vid. Thanks!!
What are the diameters of the rubber valve seal, inside and outside diameter? Thank you for the video.
Thank you so much this was driving me crazy- I’ll take that back WIFE she was driving me crazy for a new toilet 🤪🤪😜😜😂
@eliezer elieg Mine wants TWO new toilets! 😂
Do I need the Flush Valve Seal
I’ve got the same exact set up, with even the smashed thumb nail
Very informative thanks.
Thankss
Why isn't the tank filling up though in your video? My tank flushes easy too when it's empty, but once it filled up, very hard, my handle hot twisted pressing it down to flush, New handle same hard to flush.
Did u firgure it out? You will need to replace the valve seal. It gets hard when tank is full due to water pressure.
I had a feeling that our handle was going to break bc it does this so I told my husband and he broke it on accident 🙃 so thank you for sharing so we can both learn a lesson and fix it together 😂
How did you smash your thumb bro? Ouch.
Ain't gonna lie, smashing the thumb brought a tear to my eye. I smashed it in a truck door.
Anyone gonna ask me how I smash this girl I met a few weeks ago? ....Just kidding.
That shit taking 2 years to fill up
The seal is too far down or partially down.
This is my fourth video that doesntt have the chain thingy. Are these canadian toilets or something
Greasy
Do you want the seal "all the way down", or do you want the seal to fit in that grove? Your words don't really match your actions.