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Toilet Chain Broken To Flapper

  
  
  

 toilet flapper chainI had a customer call about his toilet not flushing, He had enough common sense to remove the lid to the tank and look inside. He found the chain was disconnected and he couldn’t get it to reconnect to the toilet flapper. Folks, with something like this, if the hook on the chain won’t connect to the flapper, don’t screw around with it. Just go buy a new flapper with chain. The customer was talking about using duct tape to hold it together (in the water mind you).

The toilet flapper and chain are purchased as one unit. Buy one and throw it in. The old flapper is connected to some ears on the flush valve overflow tube. Lift the flapper off of these ears and set the new one in it’s place. Make sure the seat that the flapper will rest against is nice and smooth. If it is pitted it will allow water to pass from the tank to the bowl and the toilet will flush intermittently and drive you crazy.

All that is left is to lengthen or shorten the chain so that when you push the toilet handle, the flapper lifts and allows the toilet tank water to rush into the bowl.

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