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Originally Posted by Bill
Dave, you've hit everything just right. Let me add only a couple very minor notes.
First, while you are ordering parts, order a replacement Slide-EZ valve kit. It is my experience, and others have reported, that the Slide-EZ valve fails with some regularity. The valve is a thin plastic plate that slides on a paper-thin gasket. Eventually the plate snags the gasket and rips it, and then the toilet seeps down into the dump pipe. You can buy a kit of replacement gaskets and save a little cash, but when you need to do the replacement, it sure is nice to have an entire assembly ready at your fingertips.
Second, I agree with replacing the floor flange gasket - the big foam donut. When you replace it, snug down the plastic wedges REALLY tight. The toilet is very light weight. If you replace the donut, then set the toilet on it, then snug down the wedges just a bit tight - well, you haven't really compressed the gasket. Then when you put weight on the toilet, it compresses the gasket, and woops! Now the toilet is loose. In fact, I don't think it would be a bad idea to have someone sit on the toilet, feet in the tub, while you are sliding the wedges into place.
Bill
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I realize this is rather late to the thread, but having just gone through this agony: It will be extremely helpful to have a small LED flashlight handy. It will be very helpful to have a LONG nosed needle nose pliers handy. Get a ratcheting right angle philips head screw driver. Extremely helpful will be an "inspection mirror", which you can likely find at an auto parts store. This will be helpful in examining the wedge installation. I recommend that when you have the toilet up, carefully inspect the metal slides upon which the white plastic wedges ride: make sure they are parallel to the floor, also make sure that the wedges can slide all the way. (on my toilet - which was leaking due to incorrect installation - one of the slides had been bent down and on the other side of the toilet part of the metal slide had distorted so that neither wedge rode UNDER the nuts on the flange bolts, but both had ridden up over the nuts and were wedged between the bottom of the toilet/EZ slide valve and the metal slide, giving the
appearance of being correctly installed, but in fact not holding the toilet in position, as a result the toilet had moved off of the flange seal. Fortunately the toilet was only filled with water when I discovered the leak. I don't know if the floor covering had been replaced with thinner product, but I had approx 1/8 inch between the lower part of the "legs" and the floor when I got the toilet finally installed. I used a wooden wedge under each front "leg" to remove ANY movement.