Product Description Complete Toilet Tank Repair Kit, Contains Model #400A Fill Valve, Model #507 Flush Valve, Model #502 Flapper, Model #681 Tank Lever, Bolts & Gasket.
I've tried several times to fix it, I give upSeptember 29, 2009 T. Kane(Boston) Bought it at Home depot. Instructions could be better but I got away with it. The design seems odd the way the leak control lever connects to the float and good luck if you have to go back into the tank to re-attach or fix any of it. After a couple of months the leak control and float stopped working - I fiddled with it and it seemed to work for a short while. Now the flapper seems to leak (a lot) and since the leak control lever broke (see previous comments) the toilet refills frequently.
Bottom line is that this should be very straightforward and reliable - it is neither!
Buyer BewareSeptember 12, 2009 J. Goodson(Chico CA) Bought from Home Depot. The only type they had in stock. Installed easy. Lasted approx two weeks, and then the float began sticking. Attempted to reinstall thinking that was the problem. The Fluidmaster was installed correctly. Waste of time and money. Am going to find the original ball style and remove the fluidmaster and throw it in the trash.
Fair product; horrible directionsAugust 31, 2009 Matt McCann(Cincinnati, OH) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Great ProductAugust 21, 2009 Doug P. Madaga(Conway, SC) I am a Professional Plumber and use this product frequently. By far Fluidmaster is the best name in the business. It's great to have an entire rebuild kit in one box right at my fingertips. No need to search for all the different parts. I highly reccomend this product and hope that a novice will have the good sense to read the detailed instructions!
Even I could do it . .August 20, 2009 Malcolm Payne(New York) I am, shall we say, one of the world's less practical people, and I was a little nervous at playing plumber for the first time, but I had few problems installing this kit. Took me a couple of hours to replace everything, but the big hold-ups were to do with loosening over-tightened fixtures from the old flushing mechanism. The instructions are VERY detailed and clear. If you're sure you know which specific item in the mechanism is causing the problem, you can probably buy each of the individual pieces in this kit separately and save some cash, but i just decided to give the thing a total overhaul. Recommended.
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