Simple Toilet Repair

I might be jinxing myself with the title to this post, but sometimes repairs are simple and do go as planned. The downstairs toilet would not quit running when flushed. The handle would stick in the down position. If you lifted it back up, things would return to normal. Apparently it was just the handle mechanism that was flawed, and quick trip to Home Depot obtained a replacement part for a nominal price. Examining the old part, we can see that the end of the rod had worn away part of the diecast handle causing it to get hung up in the activated position. Toilet is 15 years old. If the manufacturer hadn't been trying to be fancy by mounting the handle on the side instead of the front, we probably would not have had this problem.

Update February 2017 replaced missing picture.