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toliet continues to run / help

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Feb 27, 2013, 10:25 AM
razzle51
toliet continues to run / help
we have a Elgar 1.6 gal/6lpt toliet tank#141-250

and it just starts running out of the blue....What do you think is causeing this ? thanks

last night it woke me up twice and I had to shake the handle or flush it to get it to quit...
Feb 27, 2013, 05:18 PM
Re-mdlr
Generally it is the flapper. It might be the chain hanging up, or the flapper is old, and needs replacement, or algae or something is on the flapper or the seat to which it sits on. Lift it up and clean the seat that the flapper seals to and the bottom of flapper, try that and see what happens.

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Feb 28, 2013, 10:27 AM
razzle51
it was the flapper thanks