Plumbing Question

We have had an Eljer Titan toilet for 10 years – flushes great but the last couple of weeks it’s taken 20 or more minutes to fill after a flush.

It’s NOT the flapper – the water doesn’t leak out of the flush tank, and once it fills it stays filled.

It has a good stream coming out of the fill tube and the bowl fills, but not the flush tank (at all today…)

At times our well kicks out some rust and my guess is there’s rust and/or lime clogging something. (There was a lot of rust settled in the bottom of the tank.)

Dumb question, but where does the water come out of the flush valve assembly to fill the tank? (It’s an Eljer 495-5400-00 flush valve.)

It’s a one bathroom house so some help will be appreciated!

Thanks.

Dan

The water to fill the tank comes from a tube right along side of the ballcock that goes right to the bottom of the tank, the ballcock is the part that the water line attaches to the bottom of. The other hose goes goes to the refill tube for filling the bowl. Google ballcock in images.

You sir have a piece of rust / debris jammed in the ballcock. You can remove the ballcock and try to clean it out…..or go get a universal ballcock and live happy. Do your self a favor and get a long 3/8″ supply tube or flexible one…..hook it to your water supply and flush it for three minutes or so into the toilet bowl or a bucket of some sort.

Grab a Fluidmaster fill valve and install it after flushing the supply line. Even better, pick up an American Standard Champion 4 ($200) at Lowes or HD and prepare to be amazed.

Thanks guys! That points me in the right direction. I’ll flushing out ballcock fill valve per Eljer’s instructions http://www.eljer.com/assets/documents/eljer/install/Install_2563.pdf (step 13) and if that doesn’t work I’ll replace it.

Thanks again!

Fluidmaster 242 seal. If you remove the old seal at all put a new seal in it.

prospector wrote:

Grab a Fluidmaster fill valve and install it after flushing the supply line. Even better, pick up an American Standard Champion 4 ($200) at Lowes or HD and prepare to be amazed.

The fluidmaster fill valves are good. Been using them for years. Not so sure about the Champion toilets. Would say its about the most common toilet I work on. Also the most common toilet we end up pulling out so the floors or ceilings below can get replaced. Gerber Viper is a much better designed toilet and a fair amount less money.

This is an old thread, but thanks Mike I’ll keep your suggestions in mind for the future!