"john246" wrote in message
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I just installed a new flap in my toilet but now you must hold the handle
down for the waste to go down..before I installed the new flap all you had
to do was just push the handle down & everything was fine..how or what did
I
do wrong..I tried adjusting the chain that came with the flap,,HELP

We assume you installed the flapper valve right side up. . .

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)