DAB-10701
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I'm not gonna do this myself, but before I engage a plumber, I want to know the direction I'm headed in.
Toilet is an American Standard Yorkville 3701.016 (same spec sheet as the 2876.016, it looks like). It's a discontinued model, but replacing the toilet is not a good option, because the tile baseboard was cut to fit the annoying back wallmount "cover" you can see in that spec sheet I linked to.
The tank is model 4142, and both it and the bowl say they are 6.0 Lpf/1.6 gpf capacity. It currently has a WDI EcoFlush B8104 pressure-assist pump -- which is the 1.1 gpf capacity model. That pump case now has a hairline crack in it that sprays water (inside the tank...if the lid is left on) once it's refilled, which lowers the pressure below the ability to flush, and needs to be replaced.
Since the American Standard tank and bowl say they're rated for 1.6 gpf, and assuming no other weirdness here, we should be able to replace the 1.1 gpf EcoFlush with a 1.6 gpf Flushmate M-101526-F31k ... right?
It seems to me like they could have even put in the B8106 (1.6 gpf) EcoFlush originally, but didn't to sell it as more water-saving, or something. I just want to confirm this seems like a logical change-out to people who know plumbing and toilet installations in particular, and there isn't some weird "1.6 gpf equals 1.1 gpf in pressure toilets" conversion that I don't know or wouldn't understand. Like in the way I don't understand how to use the convection setting on my oven correctly, but that's a whole other thread for another time somewhere.
Toilet is an American Standard Yorkville 3701.016 (same spec sheet as the 2876.016, it looks like). It's a discontinued model, but replacing the toilet is not a good option, because the tile baseboard was cut to fit the annoying back wallmount "cover" you can see in that spec sheet I linked to.
The tank is model 4142, and both it and the bowl say they are 6.0 Lpf/1.6 gpf capacity. It currently has a WDI EcoFlush B8104 pressure-assist pump -- which is the 1.1 gpf capacity model. That pump case now has a hairline crack in it that sprays water (inside the tank...if the lid is left on) once it's refilled, which lowers the pressure below the ability to flush, and needs to be replaced.
Since the American Standard tank and bowl say they're rated for 1.6 gpf, and assuming no other weirdness here, we should be able to replace the 1.1 gpf EcoFlush with a 1.6 gpf Flushmate M-101526-F31k ... right?
It seems to me like they could have even put in the B8106 (1.6 gpf) EcoFlush originally, but didn't to sell it as more water-saving, or something. I just want to confirm this seems like a logical change-out to people who know plumbing and toilet installations in particular, and there isn't some weird "1.6 gpf equals 1.1 gpf in pressure toilets" conversion that I don't know or wouldn't understand. Like in the way I don't understand how to use the convection setting on my oven correctly, but that's a whole other thread for another time somewhere.
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