Toilet flap

[John105]

Recently heard the phantom fill. Suspected the flapper but interestingly the parts are so cheap, I just replaced everything. The flapper did look like it was beginning to curl and I don't know when I last replaced it. Pretty sure I did a fill valve only last time, so likely 5-8 years ago.

Back in Feb we went overseas, so I turned off the entire house at the main shut off. When I opened it, heard some pop at the toilet. It seemed the not so old fill valve would make a surging noise when filling, which was another reason I went with replacing everything.

It's not the most fun idea separating bowl from tank, but I did it, and parts were only $21. Out of this the sponge? from tank to bowl is new, and at least the rubber washers which are inside the bowl are new. They turned the water black when touched as they were deteriorating. I put rubber washers on the outside as well.

I agree with the above, this is such a simple device (toilet) yet mysterious as well!

This is what I got and I didn't use the thing that goes to the fill tube, I used the old one

https://a.co/d/c8KvvWr

 

[y_p_w]

I agree with the above, this is such a simple device (toilet) yet mysterious as well!

This is what I got and I didn't use the thing that goes to the fill tube, I used the old one

https://a.co/d/c8KvvWr

There have been all sorts of designs over the years, but for the longest time it would be a 2 inch universal fit flapper. The fill valve was often a float ball type on a lever arm and wasn't necessarily a universal fit. However, fill valves are pretty much universal (other than height) and a modern fill valve should fit in any toilet.

But good luck deciphering the flush mechanism these days. Kohler had multiple designs in the 90s using different proprietary flapper designs and a lot of those toilets are still in use. Now it's 3 inch rigid flappers or 4 inch flappers. Or flush towers. Those will be fun if they ever need to be repaired. The part that's likely to go bad is the seal, and they sell those individually, but taking one of these things apart doesn't seem like a pleasant thing to do. At least flappers are pretty easy to understand.