huttarl
New Member
I have a broken flush valve that looks like this (the whitish cylinder in the center of the tank):
The guy at Lowe's had never seen the like. Searching online, I see a lot of info about Kohler-style flush valves, but this is not quite that, and the instructions for removing a Kohler-style flush valve (turn it a quarter turn counterclockwise) or taking it apart don't work for this one.
The toilet tank says American Standard, 2005. So maybe that's who made the flush valve, but I can't find a flush valve like it on AS's web site or any other.
The problem I'm having with it is this: When the flush arm goes up, it pulls the chain you see in the above photo, which pulls up on a central column, which pulls up the whole white cylinder. When the outer cylinder lifts up, the valve is open. However the connection between the inner column and the outer cylinder is broken. It's all plastic, and there's a little black plastic part way down in there that you can see is broken:
You can lift the outer column manually, and the toilet flushes just fine; but you have to have the tank lid off for that.
If I could pull the flush valve out of the tank, maybe I could replace it, or identify the part. But as it is, the inner column seems to be attached to something (the propellor thing down in the hole?) and so none of it will come all the way out. I suppose I could just try to break it off!
Anyway, my questions are:
The guy at Lowe's had never seen the like. Searching online, I see a lot of info about Kohler-style flush valves, but this is not quite that, and the instructions for removing a Kohler-style flush valve (turn it a quarter turn counterclockwise) or taking it apart don't work for this one.
The toilet tank says American Standard, 2005. So maybe that's who made the flush valve, but I can't find a flush valve like it on AS's web site or any other.
The problem I'm having with it is this: When the flush arm goes up, it pulls the chain you see in the above photo, which pulls up on a central column, which pulls up the whole white cylinder. When the outer cylinder lifts up, the valve is open. However the connection between the inner column and the outer cylinder is broken. It's all plastic, and there's a little black plastic part way down in there that you can see is broken:
You can lift the outer column manually, and the toilet flushes just fine; but you have to have the tank lid off for that.
If I could pull the flush valve out of the tank, maybe I could replace it, or identify the part. But as it is, the inner column seems to be attached to something (the propellor thing down in the hole?) and so none of it will come all the way out. I suppose I could just try to break it off!
Anyway, my questions are:
- Any idea how to identify this flush valve?
- Can I replace it with a "universal" flush valve, like from a Korky kit? I have one that says it's for a 2" drain hole, but the drain hole in our toilet tank looks more like 3" diameter. However the flush valve in the kit has a big cone-shaped rubber thing at the bottom that looks like it might well be big enough. I'd just rather not take the whole tank off and leave our kids without any way of flushing, only to discover that I can't fix it with the kit I bought.