After messing with my toilet for an hour, I finally decided to look at RU-vid for help and came across your video. 5 minutes later, my toilet is fixed. Thank you! Very helpful and informative!
God Dammmm your amazing! Best instructional video I’ve ever seen. You speak perfectly through all steps and show what your doing without any unnecessary fluff talk. Awesome!
Excellent video! I can see the problem now - the actuator on my unit is no longer attached to anything. It just lays there loose and needs to be replaced. You explained everything so clearly and provided excellent video shots of everything. Thank you.
$47.17 including Florida sales tax on Amazon. Now I find out why my water bill has been so high lately. The squeaking noise as it filled to the top but not completely had me investigating. Tim, you're the best! Keep it up! Homeboy here in Tampa Town.
Amazing! I did need to use a screw driver between the handles to help unscrew the old cartridge. Every instruction was spot on and so simple. Thank you! From 72 year old grandma!!!
Fabulous tip for the cartridge wrench! I broke the plastic one I bought from Sloan and wish I would have watched this video! Spent a bunch of time fabricating a V new one when all I needed were channel locks! Excellent content!
Thank you so much. Clear instructions with great admonishments (do not lose these screws!). I’d never fixed a flushmate toilet before but with your help it went sans hitch.
Thanks! You saved me. The instructions on the package for the replacement tube said to thread the cylinder down to where one thread was showing. That didn't do it. I saw the way you dialed it in and that was what I needed. Thanks for the great videos!
Excellent Job . I have no experience with this system and need to change a cartridge out in my Church's bathroom. Very clear and concise information with out the usual drama that most guys get into.. Thank you very much.
This video is what made the written instructions on the catridge kit wrapping understandable for me. First I got a cartridge kit and read the instructions. Then I watched this video and figured everything out.
A little grease on the cartridge threads is a great tip. This made it a lot easier to turn the cartridge and to calibrate it correctly. This was the second video I watched, which resulted in complete success, aafter failing with the another video. I did drop that "don't lose" screw in the tank (before I saw your video), but fortunately was able to retrieve it with a grabber tool. Thanks for a very helpful video.
Thanks for the tutorial. Was able to fix mine. Only hitch was that either I needed the tool, or mine was so old the plastic was brittle. Took me using a hack saw blade to free the old one after a significant number of the fins broke off.
Really appreciate your videos man ! Where I live the building owner is to cheap to replace or better yet remove these Sloan flush masters, thanks to your videos I can now repair mine !
great video, thanks for staying on point & keeping to the job at hand, to many instructional videos are full of self-embellishment, you just showed how to do it, & got it done clearly & simply.
Thank you for the tutorial! I now know how it works and what to do and how to do it to get one of my Sloan pressure toilets functioning properly. the coin feeler gage is also a helpful tip!
You don't have to loosen the other clip as the rod slides out, and you don't have to take the screw all the way out because once loosened, you can push the clip out of the way. That way, you won't lose them
Good video very thorough but you only need to remove 1 screw and loosen the other on the flush rod to remove it and some you just have to loosen both and lift and turn the first one and the rod slides right out thanks
Tim when you talked about loseing the screws reminded me of the time I was working on a toilet just like that and droped the screw in the tank. Late at night and of coure it was the last thing I needed to do before leaving.
i cannot thank you enough. i was ready to throw thIs one out even after following the instructions on the package that my new valve came in because it kept running. instructions say to tighten the valve until you see 1 or 2 threads at the top. not wanting to strip the threads i was nervous about going down any farther. so, i'd decided to chuck it and get a new toilet. when you said to tighten until it stops running i reAlized i hadn't done THAT! may god bless you tim....MERRY CHRISTMAS,....FRANK
There are times that I have to watch 3 to 4 videos before I can get a good one that walks you thru all the steps. Thank you for a perfect video…. The cartridge was tricky, but I changed to a pliers that are even length and with the screw driver in between the two legs ….. allowed me the leverage to take off the cartridge. Thank you again!!! Saving money 💰 money 💰 Doing it myself …. Your great dude
Thank you for this comment! I could not get the cartridge to budge using handles of channel locks and almost gave up. Did what you suggested, used pliers with screwdriver in between and I was able to get it to turn!
I had an American Standard with this POS system in a house I built in 96. Every couple of years the cart. went. It would make some fun noises on it's own in the middle of the night. Screeching like. The main issue was the linkage Am. St. used. It all rusted out even though there shouldn't be water in the tank. They wanted $300 for new linkage and clips. I ended up making my own out of car door linkage rods and the clips that hold them in. I also drilled and wired them. The last year I was in that house the pressure vessel decided to end it's life. I swore mostly because of the linkage and no warranty on it I would never give a dime to American standard again. Moen, Kohler, and Toto for me.
After six years this September 2023, I am ordering a new Flushmate 504 unit to replace this leaky one. All attempts at repairing failed. It started off with seeing about a quarter inch of water in the tank and a drip coming from the supply valve area. What got me to looking was a loud squeal all night after the last flush I did, that I can only assume was the slow intake of water to replace what was leaking out of the unit. This morning I took the tank off the toilet and took the 504 out of the tank. I then cut the hose from the supply valve and put it back with a radiator clamp. I decided to test the unit before bolting the tank and everything back together., Glad I did as now when I turned the water on the upper valve is spewing water out onto the floor. Checking for tightness, duck valve good, I gave up. As you cannot find a lower supply valve for sale on Amazon or the manufacturer's website, my only option was to order a complete new unit. Original cost of toilet with Flushmate was $392. New unit on Amazon is $169. Annual cost is around $93. What sucks is I had bought two of Flushmate toilets back in the late 80's I think it was from Home Depot when they first came out for the consumer. I sold that house and the new owners are enjoying them and I never had a problem one with either of them. I guess quality is getting worse like everything else, right? Just pay the price and go onward. See this link for my test after cutting off a bit of hose with the old clamp and using a radiator clamp. drive.google.com/file/d/1KVIF64wBUBRGotlDBJ_xdj__0hGcrD7G/view?usp=sharing
