Toilet keeps running

[William Thompson]

Hello Forum.

My toilet keeps running. The only way I found to stop it was to put a sick under a part of the tank that, when elevated by the stick, it stopped the continuous flow of water. I will be posting photos and videos here soon. Can I get some help? Am I at the right place for help?

 

[breplum]

yes.

 

[William Thompson]

yes.

Tonight I will upload some sort of video and pictures describing what the tank is doing.

 

[sarg]

Just from your description it sounds like you have an old style fill valve with a "floating" bulb that no longer floats. Replace it with a Fluidmaster 400.

 

[William Thompson]

Just from your description it sounds like you have an old style fill valve with a "floating" bulb that no longer floats. Replace it with a Fluidmaster 400.
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I think this is not it. I think I have a number of issues. Here is what it looks like:
Please click on this link:
New video by William Thompson
That is a link from Google Photos.
If you do not trust that, I have uploaded this to youtube:

 

[William Thompson]

yes.

 

[GReynolds929]

That's a Mansfield toilet. The flush tower is missing its gasket seal. You need a new one.

Korky 427BP Flush Valve Seal For Mansfield 210 and 211 Toilet Repairs , Red
Amazon.com

 

[MicEd69]

I threw away my crappy Mansfield flush valve and replaced it with a standard flapper flush valve. More work but better and more reliable system, IMHO.

 

[William Thompson]

That's a Mansfield toilet. The flush tower is missing its gasket seal. You need a new one.

Korky 427BP Flush Valve Seal For Mansfield 210 and 211 Toilet Repairs , Red
Amazon.com

Thanks but where did the original one go?

 

[TomFOhio]

You need to replace that red 210 Mansfield gasket. The top piece on that tower is broken. Look online and you can probably find
one. The black hose goes into the small hole of the tower where the piece is broken. There is nothing wrong with those flush valves
as all you need to do is replace that gasket and make sure it is in its grove and you will be good to go.

 

[havasu]

Thanks but where did the original one go?

Im going to guess, but you may have an accumulation of tank parts under that flush valve.

 

[Twowaxhack]

Replace that entire toilet. It’s a cheap builders grade model anyway.

 

[TomFOhio]

Thats at standard 160 tank

 

[William Thompson]

I am very happy and grateful. I am happy to say that my toilet is fixed. Now my son won't be using the toilet of the mater bedroom. And I am grateful to the people here who have posted helpful advice. I bought the Red Korky 427BP Flush Valve Seal For Mansfield 210 and 211 at Ace Hardware locally. It had a QR code on the back of the packaging and when I scanned it it opened a google page which, when I clicked on the video option, it linked to a video. which I will post here.


Notice he says to but the product inside the top ridge. If you reach down into the tank and feel along the edges of the circle you can feel a top and bottom ridge. It is kind of like this:



If you put the item along the bottom seal, which is against the instruction but it might feel intuitive, then there will be a leak and the water level in the tank will get low enough to make one of thost "ghost flushes" that the instructor in the video stated. But if you are sure to put this item along the top ridge, it will be fine.

By the way, this item that goes on the top of the flush tower was found wedged at the bottom and might have been a partial or whole cause of the problem



I am post this in hopes it might help someone in the future.

 

[Twowaxhack]

The flush valve seal fits into a groove all the way around.