We're in the middle of several interlocking projects here, with one of the simpler ones being a toilet bowl replacement. After about three weeks of flawless operation it just refused to flush completely. The water would slowly change out, but even a piece of tissue paper was hard to get to got down.

This morning I snaked the toilet, no improvement. So I shrugged and pulled the whole thing out and set it up on a milk crate in my back yard. I could fill the tank from a hose and watch it flush... and it still didn't not flush completely. I blew out the drain with the hose, even snaked with a 2" piece of foam, no obstructions but no good flush either.

Pulling the tank and looking inside the water feed hole in the seat I see... some fitting for the tank supply tube I never needed that must have dropped inside during shipping. (Hey, I didn't put it there.) It was blocking the strong flow enough to prevent a siphon flush, only enough water came through for a slow change. I only saw this because I put a mirror down the hole on the seat, and I was only looking as I was completely out of any useful ideas what to try next.

Just something else to keep in mind for those weird toilet problems.

And we thank you for the imput Ernie. We'll bear that in mind for the next "weird" toilet complaint we get. We're just glad you caught it. Regards and thanks again. Tom

Thanks Ernie for sharing this with us.

John