Do you ever just feel like fixing one thing reveals 5 other broken things?
Ugh this day...really the past few months have just been an absolute nightmare.
So many things are going wrong in so many places and not even normal things. Weird Twilight Zone-esque things.
For instance, I have two motorcycles right now. One was in a wreck and I'm working on getting back in order to sell. My other bike is "perfectly" fine. It's my daily commuter and it's a tank.
However, for some weird reason, today as I was on my way to Sears to buy a breaker bar, the positive battery lead came loose. Well, I tightened it up and turned the bike over only to realize that somehow in some unexplainable way, the tachometer had spun all the way around and was now stuck about 30 degrees below its normal resting state behind two plastic guards. Now I have to completely deconstruct the entire speedo/tach assembly just to push it back around.
Some may say that's not that big of an issue. And if that were the only problem they would be right. But there's an endless list of things exactly as weird as that driving me crazy.
God, I need a vacation. Not a complicated one either. I just want to go somewhere far away and lay around doing nothing.
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Not the little rubber flush valve.
That's a piece of cake.
The valve that lets water into the tank.
That's a bit more complicated.
As I learned from a plumber, the easiest way to do this is to remove the tank from the toilet and tote it to a nice flat surface where you can remove the old valve mechanism and install the new one without having to work in a narrow space, on your back, upside down and backwards.
"Let's see...righty tighty...lefty loosey...but upside down it's,,,???"
And that's what I did.
And when I put the tank back on the toilet I tightened one of the nuts just a 'little bit' more and heard CRACK!
I'd cracked the porcelain bowl flange and the toilet was garbage.
New toilet - $100.
Installation - $97.
