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MolGenBuckeye

MolGenBuckeye

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OK, got a home improvement question for all you handy types out there. I recently took the tank off a toilet in our house to paint behind it. Painted, hooked it back up, flushes and works fine.

However.

Many times when running water somewhere else (sink, shower, tub), when you shut that water off, the toilet water runs for a couple seconds. Probably not a huge deal in terms of water cost, but it's annoying.

Any ideas?
 
The only time I've noticed it is when other things are run. It seems to start running right as you shut off some other faucet, and stops after only a couple seconds.

As for the guts...umm, I'm not positive what the high tech option is. It's got a rubber gasket between the tank and the base, if that's what you mean. Pretty standard float pulls up a lid on the drainage hole, water line hooks over the top of the tube setup.

There's no external leaks that I can find...harder to tell if it leaks to the bowl, but wouldn't it run kind of constantly if that was the case?
 
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FCollinsBuckeye said:
your local hardware store should have dye tablets that you can put into the tank and if the toilet is leaking, the dye will be evident in the bowl. You can't flush during this test, obviously.
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Ah, didn't know such a thing existed. I'll pick one up and see what I find, thanks!

Maybe a silly question, but the valve from the wall is supposed to be all the way open, right? That's the one thing I didn't check before I disassembled it; I just shut it off.
 
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Tear out the shitter and put in a urinal. Save the shitting for work, so you can do it on company time.

Seriously, I would check to make sure there isn't a piece of crud sticking to the edge of the hole or the bottom of the rubber flapper. If that's all clean, and seems to be sealing tight, go ahead and replace the rubber flapper. When the rubber dired out, it might've cracked or warped a little bit, and it's not sealing up tight. Most stores sell them for under $10. It'll take all of an hour to do.

Oh, as for the dye tablets, just squirt some food coloring into the tank. (I prefer red, so it looks like blood.)
 
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FCollinsBuckeye said:
your local hardware store should have dye tablets that you can put into the tank and if the toilet is leaking, the dye will be evident in the bowl. You can't flush during this test, obviously.
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or just spend 15 bucks and get a new set of guts. its pretty simple to replace them. if you never have follow the directions. follow them and you should be ok, assuming you dont see this
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in which case you turn off the water drink a beer or 6 and swear like holy hell and blame it on the cheap ass chinaman who made the parts.
 
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I have a similar problem with my toilet. It just starts running for about 2 seconds then stops. I think it has to do with the clorox bleach tabs I use to keep the bowl clean. I'm thinking the bleach mesed up the rubber flapper.
 
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