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Assemble & Install Tank Bolts

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Stop a Running Toilet for Good | Complete Toilet Tank Rebuild DIY

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Before you put this in, you're going to need this gasket right here. It's good. This little kit comes with everything you need to rebuild your toilet outside of a supply line. If you needed to put a new supply line on, you would want to buy one of those as well. We got a bag full of bolts, nuts, and washers. At this time, the only thing you really need two washers, two of these brass nuts. Set everything else aside. We'll be using that in a little bit. And you just put this right there, like so. Okay. And now we're ready to flip this thing back around. And now we have everything sticking out right in front of us. Let's get that cleaned up a little bit as well. Put this nut right here on. I'm going turn it sideways at this point. That way I can see that it's still that way and I can tighten it right here. You want to hold in the back where you where you actually want this to sit and tighten up. Okay. You'll feel when it's getting tightened. And we're going to stick one black washer on each of these nuts right here. And then we'll go regular washer and a nut. grab our half inch nut driver and we can turn. Like I said, nice thing about this is we can get it torqued. It's awesome. These hollow shaft nut drivers this way are really great. And then the fact that you're actually putting nuts and washers on this means you're sealing up the whole tank. If the tank did move just a little bit, it's not going to leak right here. Now, as far as our fill valve goes, you can get this nut started and put on here as well. Going to want to turn just to have a look at the way this is facing. You just want it out of the way, right? This is probably a good setup. We're actually going to have to cut the overflow tube, too. We'll do that after this. Just keep that steady. Go handtight. We can go a little bit past handtight with this as well. Don't have to go crazy. All right, but another quarter of a turn. Here's one more thing I want to do. We have extra washers left over from before. I'm going to put those washers on the bottom side of that nut. And then I'm going to put this piece right here down on there. I think it's going to add a little bit more stability. A lot of times on toilets,

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