On Sep 27, 8:14�am, John wrote:
Lefty wrote:
"John" wrote in ...
Some weeks ago I posted my plight regarding a toilet that suddenly stopped
flushing any type of solids, including small amounts of simple toilet
tissue.

I've received many suggestions and ultimately I decided it would be easier
to just replace the toilet which is what I did.

The new toilet flushes just fine.

Several people asked me to follow-up with a postmortem of the toilet
before I threw it out. �I kept the toilet as a planter for a few weeks in
the front yard then I tired of it and took a hammer to it today.

Results: �Nada. �No objects anywhere. �Clean as a whistle. �Also, I didn't
find any objects in the drain.

I guess that I'll never know why a toilet after 10 or so years decided to
get up and die. �Toilet suicide is so sad.

Then you either had calcium clogging the rim flush holes, not clogged
completely, but some blockage just the same.

Someone else suggested that. �I put a coat hanger in the holes (when the
toilet was connected) and didn't notice anything obvious. �I didn't
check for that during the postmortem.



Or something happened to the flush ball in the tank which screwed up the
timing of the flush.

I replaced all the components in the tank.





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if the old toilet is still around try smashing the bowl ring area, no
doubt its filled with sludge. could of easily been cleaned out with
acid.

5 bucks is cheap, did you try the acid thing?

if not why not?