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(More customer reviews)When you have a house built, the contractors will put in toilets with the cheapest innards you've ever seen. My house came with Mansfield toilets. Old style float bulb garbage. Within a year the fill valve on 2 of them broke, so I decided to just buy all new innards for all of them, replace the plastic fill lines with steel braided ones - the works. So I bought the complete Fluidmaster kits.
The most striking thing about these kits is how absolutely TERRIBLE the instructions are. I'm a glutton for punishment, and this is FAR from my first home improvement job. I'm the guy people call to put things together. I have seen some bad instructions in my day, but nothing as bad as these. One big sheet, English in the front, Spanish on the back.
Now the job isn't that hard if you've done it a few times; but there are some steps that you cannot skip without making a royal mess. There is no emphasis added on those steps, everything is treated the same. The "helpful" illustration - here's a perfect example - to remove the tank, you have to remove 3 (sometimes 2) bolts. Big, flat head suckers. They show a screwdriver going down into the tank. What they don't show is the gymnastics you will try to accomplish to secure the nut on the bottom from rotating as you turn the bolts. You need a screw driver at least 2 feet long to pull it off by yourself.
Then there's other stupid stuff. The fill valve gasket is a piece of rubber, and they used the same piece of rubber to make a gasket for the fill line. You've got to 'carve' it out with an X-acto knife. WHY???
The newer kits that are sold now come with a "Leak guard" attachment that adds way too much complexity for very little benefit, and the flapper that comes in this kit is different than the good one you buy separately. It has this dial on it where you're supposed to be able to adjust how big the flush is. It's so stupid and it doesn't work. It kept closing way too quickly no matter what setting I had it on. I took it off to see if I could figure out why it wasn't working, and a plastic piece in the center of the rubber plug popped out. Nice. I got it back in, but then I couldn't get the flapper to stop leaking. I finally replaced it with another flapper. $8 down the toilet literally.
So forget Fluidmaster. You've been warned.
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400AK Features: -Toilet tank complete repair kit. -Fits most 2 and 3 bolt tanks. -Contains flush valve with adjust a flush flapper , fill valve, sure fit chrome tank lever, 3 bolts and gasket. -Fill valve saves water, signals leaks. -Sure fit chrome tank lever trims and bends to fit no pre measuring needed. -Flush valve ends leaks at the tank drain. -Adjust a flush flapper dials to adjust water volume for a custom flush. For more information on this product please view the Sheet(s) below: Installation Sheet
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