How to fix a Toilet -Toilet Handle Replacement. 

Best video on this topic on all of RU-vid, thanks for your techniques and very clear explanation. Even years later you are still helping folks like me! Thanks for posting this! For some dumb reason the rental I own, built after 2005 has metal fixtures inside the toilets! Everything I ever worked on since the 80s always had plastic I am stunned at this install I have here, but your video solved it. Kudos!

I just searched "tank lever nut stuck" and saw your video. You just bailed my butt out. Thank you for this!!!

Thank you! This is the first tip they forget to mention when removing old toilet levers! Helped me out so much!

YOURE THE BEST BOB THANK YOU

Thank you, thank you, thank you! this nut was frozen at my rental, and i was turning it the wrong way, thankfully i didn't crack the tank.

Yipee! It WORKED! THANKS!!

Left handed thread? I feel so silly. I have been using PB blaster for 3 days. After watching a minute of your video, I leaped out of my chair and had the handle off in 45 seconds. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I will put my cut off wheel back in the toolbox.

Of course, with my fantastic luck, my handle fixture WAS tighty righty. It had a frozen nut from a fixture from the 80's, if that's a factor in the thread direction. Thanks though. I applied penetrating oil on it for a full day, put the vice grips to both sides, and I saw the threads moving out from the nut and that was enough to break the rust and I backed it off ice and easy, right to the trash bin. Thanks again!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!

Thank you for this video. It helped me remove the plastic from the toilet handle.

Thank you!!!!!!

Great video Bob

Great video

Thank you VERY much for saying that the plastic nut that holds the toilet handle on must be turned to the RIGHT to loosen. After struggling with inadvertently tightening the four-wings (for hand-tightening) wing nut with slipjoint pliers, and breaking off two of its four wings (but somehow not cracking the toilet tank, despite having turned the plastic wing nut at least 1/4 turn TIGHTER), I watched your video and then somehow managed to turn it back the to the RIGHT, and then continue to LOOSEN and remove it. Now I will buy a new toilet handle, since it's wing nut is almost destroyed. By the way, I had been trying to remove the handle so that I could then spray the friction points with non-drip WD40, because the handle was not rotating back to its home position after flushing - so the water kept running. How should I have fixed that?

Need to go get myself a little saw!

Thankyou so much 😊 👍

YaaaYYY! This is so awesome. Thank you

Need help with replacing a toilet handle on an old Richmond toliet. I have a universal handle or lever that has the plastic nut. The metal bar corroded. I bought the same model on amazon. It now has a metal nut that makes the handle too tight to flush. I tried bending the rod that lifts up and down to face more inward . The toilet sides of the tank are not flat. It's not round. The 2 sides stick out more than the inner tank part. It's really old. I don't know which lever or handle will actually fit.

Thank you! Mine was stuck so tight, as if though someone gorilla glued it. 🤦‍♀️

Is this correct? With reverse thread, you tighten by turning counter-clockwise, and loosen by turning clockwise. Fluidmaster instructions verbatim: “REMOVE LEVER unscrew tank lever nut by twisting counter-clockwise, remove nut, and pull lever from tank” They even have a picture with an arrow showing which way to turn. “INSTALL LEVER Hand-tighten locknut clockwise” Am I crazy or are the Fluidmaster instructions WRONG?? I spent a lot of time following those instructions and finally had to hacksaw the plastic nut off. Not happy.

Bob I have a wolverine handle, and it fell apart, now I am stuck with the arm thingy and the front plate piece. How do I remove the thing, it's stuck fast. Help

I'm going to try it ...now I have buy a saw...can I use a knife

I've cracked a toilet while trying to remove an old handle and I know a few people who also did it.

My toilet handler don't have a chain connected to it