I showed up at the house around 1:25 and they had already replaced the blown capacitor and serviced both units. How is that for an awesome experience? It is great to have a reliable service company for such a required resource in these Texas summers.

Thanks Abdiel and Gino! http://www.bigbearac.com/

When I pulled the old flapper to install the new flush mechanism, it turns out the overflow tube was broken and that was causing water from the tank to leak into the bowl which in turn made the fill valve run to fill the tank. Now I needed a new overflow tube. Turns out I only needed that part and the fill valve was still functional. As I already had all three parts I went ahead and installed the flush converter.

This is a pretty slick piece of technology. It has a two-button mechanism to control the level of flush: top button for liquids and paper and bottom button for solids. The mechanism activates a separate flapper built into the converter unit that attaches to the overflow tube and is seated in the flush base. Reading on Amazon I saw that many users had issues with installation and getting the converter to operate correctly. Fortunately several reviewers posted insight into the setup to get me up and running.

After making a few adjustments to the various float levels, I can say without a doubt that this is a great flusher! (I just laugh to myself even making this post.) It is fairly cheap in price so as time goes on I may install this on the three other toilets. It comes with a five year warranty which I hope not to have to use, but it is reassuring that the vendor stands behind their product. Twenty dollars is much cheaper than replacing the entire toilet just to get this functionality.

I’ve got a bucket under the tank of a toilet I’m waiting on parts for. I kept seeing water all over the floor after a couple of hours. Turns out my bucket was cracked. Doh!

A little looking around on the internet lead me to the carburetor bowl bolt. This little bolt has some portions that aren’t threaded and have holes in that area. I took the bolt off, getting gas all over my hand, and took it inside to clean out. It didn’t look like it was gunked up, but I washed it off and used my air compressor to blow it out.

I put the bolt back in and it fired up on the first pull and continued to run! Success! It was 60 degrees out yesterday and with the winter rye I needed to bag it instead of mulching. I got pretty overheated and realized it is going to be a long summer. Hooray for cost savings!