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Remove the Old Flapper

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Weak Kohler Toilet Flush-EASY FIX!...How to Replace a Flapper With Float

What happens here

With the tank empty, remove the old flapper. This particular Kohler flapper is not a standard type that simply slides off. It features hard plastic clips that attach to small 'tongues' on the flush valve. To remove it, use one finger on each side of the flapper to gently pull upward. Listen for a 'click' as the clips disengage from the tongues. Repeat on the other side, and the entire flapper assembly should pop off. Exercise caution to avoid breaking the plastic tongues, as doing so would necessitate replacing the entire flush valve, a more extensive repair.

Goal: Detach and remove the worn-out flapper mechanism from the toilet tank.

Tools and materials

  • Old Flapper Kohler — The part being replaced

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Okay, so to remove this flapper This is not a normal flapper that just kind of sets over these little prongs right here These kind of flappers this hard plastic it kind of clips in so I just put one finger around each side Of this and just kind of pull up and you can hear it click Right, and then you just do the same thing over here and the whole thing just pops right off And I'll just show you so if it's on that little tongue I like to go on both sides of that and pop up that way you don't break that little tongue off because you can see those down there You break one of those off you're replacing this whole flush valve

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