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Reattach Tank and Tighten Bolts

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SOLD OUT OF GO TO TOILET REPAIR KIT!...Had To Rebuild Toilet With Korky

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Metal Washers and Nuts (from kit)
  • Nut Driver (7/16")
  • Rubber Shims
  • Spirit Level

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they will make a good seal once we tighten them up flip it over get the holes lined up and it's not gonna oh nope pop the bolts out that usually works but this is gonna be a lot easier okay pop the bolts out take this set it right down on there hold this in place grab your bolts and just take your bolts and slide them in that's going to be easier all right so now this is in there you want to take your washer and your nut and just get that hooked up and kind of get it started do the other side so we ran out we grabbed our 7 16 nut driver and we're just going to start tightening you want to tighten evenly a little bit on this side a little bit on that side these red gaskets in here they're totally meant to compress and you see this little dimple right here in this little dimple right here we should be able to actually just take this down and set this toilet flush we know that it's going to be snug and it's going to be sealed i don't necessarily like it so personally at this point i've tried tightening this and getting it stable and i'm not a fan it actually is not going to really sit the way that i feel comfortable leaving it and i i don't like that so as i was tightening this tank it still had some wobble in it what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to take some of these rubber shims that i have and i am going to wedge these in between the tank and the bowl we're still going to get the seal that we want we're just not going to have that much pressure to where i feel like i'm going to crack the tank right so far for me this is not that grand um i don't like when you have a wobbly tank right and nobody's gonna want that so i loosen this all back up and i'm just gonna pop these shims i'm gonna put one right here i'm going to put one over on the other side like that and i'm going to cut this one down a little bit and i'm going to stick it right here on this back part and i love these little rubber shims too man they have a bunch of different uses they're usually used for shimmering toilets but for something like this this is totally going to be good let's get that set right where it is and we might end up just pushing them down a little bit more we might have to move them around as we get started it's already way tighter than what it was and it's just compressing on rubber so we got to come down a little bit more on this side and you can see that red gasket in there it's plenty compressed it was a fat gasket it's going to have no problem setting like this…

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