Thanks for your speedy(!) reply Jim.

Yes, I have tried filling the bowl slowly
with a pail. Same low level I'm afraid,
hence the thought that the top edge of the
gooseneck might have somehow got broken
off creating a situation similar to a dam
in a river which has had it's top edge
smashed by some humongous logs rushing
downstream. (Not that I make a habit of
flushing humongous logs, of course.)



On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:54:26 -0500, Speedy
Jim wrote:
Emilio Teodoro Lopez-Garazgos wrote:

Relevant particulars:

*15 year-old American standard
toilet
(not a 1.6 gallon flush)

*Ball-float is set so that
water
level in tank is one
millimetre below
top of filler tube

Problem:

After flushing, the bowl only fills
itself
to about 2/3 of the depth that it used
to
when new and with less "oomph" than
previously.

Manually flushing the toilet by
dumping a
2 gallon pail of water directly into
the
bowl yields the same (low) water
level.

I had suspected than the holes in the
rim
might be clogged with scale but that
wouldn't explain the low water levels
when
pail-flushing would it ?

I'm wondering if perhaps a weir (or
whatever it might be called) somewhere
in
the gooseneck of the trap might have
somehow gotten broken off, requiring
replacement of the toilet ?

The trap is cast right into the bowl
and wouldn't break
in any way that didn't leak. Any sign
of leakage?

What happens if you *slowly* add water
to the bowl from a bucket?
If the bowl refills to its normal
level, the problem is in the
refill mechanism in the tank. A
small tube from the ballcock
feeds water down the overflow tube to
refill the bowl. See if
that refillt ube is in place and that
it produces a steady stream
down the overflow as the tank refills.

Jim
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Emilio Teodoro Lopez-Garazgos
Dunrobin, Ontario,Canada


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