Thanks for showing how to do this by raising the plastic ring, adjusting, and then pushing the ring back down to lock in place. A ton of other videos show disassembling and screwing clockwise or counterclockwise to adjust. Your method was obviously how it was engineered to work.
Lifesaver! Thank you. I did have to readjust the arm (looks like a long plastic screw w/ a turn knob) adjacent to the float to match the height difference because it kept running. At any rate, I turned it, flushed, 45 seconds vs. 6 minutes thank you! 🙏
Finally!! Thank you, the box had the WORST directions, naming parts with no references to which or where the were on the part. Thank you! Fixed fill problem as soon as I emptied the tank. A simple grey pop up plastic adjustment..wow. lol
Sam, thanks for the simple yet details as needed video. And even better, it worked just as shown! I needed to lower level a bit. Now I'm not hearing that trickling water sound because of the tank slightly overfilling. Thanks again.
💯💯 I fixed mine a decade ago, but with a rubber band (not even kidding) & now, it started happening again, but I wanted to learn the right way... & here I landed. Perfect, also soaking/cleaning the tank with vinegar because it was black/brown on 1 side & that's unacceptable! That trickling water sound is so annoying though!
Thank you so very much! I'm writing during the pandemic and I don't want to put any repairmen at risk over a trivial problem. I'm not particularly mechanical but thanks to RU-vid videos like yours, I've been able to fix a washing machine, a dishwasher and now a toilet that wasn't flushing well due to a low water level. I admit that it feels good to learn something new!
Thank you very much for that video. I’ve been trying to figure out how to adjust the water level. I did it just like you showed in the video and it worked perfectly. Thank you so much.
Dude you’re the freaking man! I adjusted the screw thing all the way up and was stumped, almost broke the plastic pieces. Thank you a ton! You got a like from me 🙏🏻💪🏻
WoW sir,,because I don’t know how to fix my toilet bowl water lever,I feel bad haha,thank you sir to your video👍👍👍now I know it’s a very simple to adjusting,keep it up the good work sir,thank you❤
Very informational. Tried it. Mine had a flow regulator on the hose going to the drain pipe w/c was set too tight, w/c was restricting the flow. Thank you for the guide.
thank you, I was about to rip out the styrofoam bcuz not enough water. you saved the styrofoam. all I need is to adjust what you need and more water....
This is a rarely used toilet that didn't constantly run or make a trickling sound, but I eventually noticed water stains all over the floor, and while cleaning them as I leaned on the toilet, water was dripping on my arm. It turned out the tank was filling up almost past the handle and water was coming out around it when the toilet was jostled. I tried a fix from another video that made the situation worse, but your video did the trick. Thank you.
I have two much water in the tank. I hear it trickling all the time. I will try this after work. I know this because I compared it with my other tank. The other tanks level water does not run up to the top of the pipe thing its about an inch low. so ill adjust the water level. I did just replace the flapper cleaning the hole itself with a scrubby
Same... also embarrassed to admit that I recently found out that we're supposed to deep clean & soak the tank for hours! I've always cleaned it & added those tablets, but not deeply with stopping the water n all. Embarrassing, but glad that I finally learned that!
Thank you, how do you pop the knob, is it upwards? And how do you pop the knob thing back in place? I'm not as smart as everyone here that understood it 😂 thanks again
I typically adjust with the adjustment screw but it was so off that the screw, when set correctly, rubbed the inside of the tank lid. Learning to adjust the whole assembly totally solved that problem. Thanks
Dude, I'm doing this shit right now but what you're not showing on camera is how are you pulling that up and where are you pulling it up from? You should've showed your other hand bro.
i just lowered mine so it would stop leaking into the bowl and now its making that loud high pitched noise when its filling back up. I tried adjusting it several times but it is still there.
@@pickledjalapeno9482 No, this procedure adjusts the water level in the TANK, Not the BOWL. Other fill valve models have a flow adjustment screw/valve on the short little tube that clips to the overflow (drain) tube so you can slow the flow in that little tube during the tank refill cycle. That will reduce the total amount of water going to the BOWL and lower the BOWL level... or if you increase flow, you'll reach the Max bowl level. this FM 400 has no method to restrict the BOWL refill flowrate. You can pinch the tube perhaps, or move the clip so the little tube squirts into the tank (no water to the bowl during refill cycle). Also, as others have said, use the screw to fine tune the tank level height. The installation instructions show how to set the "course" height before you install the assembly. But if it's installed incorrectly (to short) you gotta do the procedure shown here to get the float at the height for that adjusting screw to do its think. read here: www.fluidmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/400a_installation_instructions_english.pdf
You just need to turn the screw, to adjust the float level. No need to turn off the water. There are other RU-vid videos that show how.. And, in one of my two toilets, I didn't have a screw adjustment, but there was metal U shaped clamp, on the rod connecting to the float, that I could simply move up/down by squeezing on the ends of the metal clamp..
@@barbarasevenoaks6821 Do a web seach for "fluidmaster toilet float valve". You'll see a picture of the float valve. From a sideways view, you'll see a thin vertical rod, that is connected to the float valve at two points. This thin vertical rod is the long plastic "screw". This thin vertical rod is topped by a screw head. You should be able to use a philips screwdriver to adjust this screwhead, either clockwise or counterclockwise. And this causes the float, in the float valve, to be adjusted up or down, depending on whether you turn the screw counterclockwise or clockwise
@@ginobean737 well said. That was what I was trying. But, no matter the direction, the screw is not affecting the float valve. I will try again, maybe I'm impatient. Gino, you explain things well, in order and with detail.
@@KindCountsDeb3773 similar here, it either doesn't allow the tank to refill or it makes no difference, tank still stops shy of the fill level, reported it to landlord weeks ago 🙄
Well I got it within a fourth of a inch but the bottom one is loose and just keeps spinning around! I'm sure the idiots that think they are the maintenance for the apartment have absolutely no clue what there doing and left the bathroom full of some black tar stuff 🤷
So use the screw. Many are different. Mine has a part that I didn't see here, but it works pretty much the same. (A clamp that's attached to the tube & to the little hose where water comes out of.) I knoooow how old this is, but just in case someone else needed this.
I'm a 70 year old woman. I can't see how you clicked off that piece. Other photos. Old ladies have weak hands. And no money to call a plumber. Thanks. Can you show what you actually did. Thanks.
I have a close up view in this video. Hope it helps! Toilet Making Noise? Replace RUSTED Bolts. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-axmEWzlX6CY.html
cool. I was checking out my toilet and determined it was that grey thing that I needed to adjust, and now I watch this video and learn that I was right! yey me!
