Yesterday the chain came off the flapper of my Toto toilet. So I put it back. Now the toilet bowel does not fill up as far as it did and the force of the flush is diminished. I must have done something to cause this, but have no idea what that something might be.
Toilet “bowel” has to be one of the greatest typos ever.
Are you sure that the chain was put back on at the same link? That can make a big difference as to how wide the flapper is held open. It did come off down at the flapper or up at the arm? Sometimes the arm can have several holes too and they will make a difference in the opening as well.
What lieu said. Generally it’s recommended to have about ½" of slack in the chain, and it’s usually best to use the hole in the flush lever arm that lines up most closely (left-right alignment) to the center of the flapper. Sometimes, however, the arm hole has to be chosen on the basis of lifting the flapper high enough (farther from the flush handle = higher lift).
The chain came off the flapper. When I re installed it with the help of a paper clip, there was too much slack, but I have taken the slack up. The problem persists. One problem I have is that I cannot see why the flapper has anything to do with the refill. The water whooshes out of the tank and and the toilet BOWL empties. Then the tank refill starts, and it seems to me that this is when the bowl slowly refills, with the flapper closed. Also, I always thought the height of water in the bowl was related to the shape of the S curve, and so should always be the same. What does the flapper have to do with bowl refilling anyway?
In a regular toilet the height of the water was related to the curve of the drain. But Totos have two curves in the drain. You can actually pour a lot of water into the Toto bowl before the natural suction takes over. But in a normal toilet it doesn’t take much extra water to activate the natural suction.
Is there a reason you had to use a paperclip? Did part of the chain come off or did something break?
Something must have broken off, because the end of the chain had no way to attach to the flapper itself. The paperclip gave me something to thread through the little projection on the top of the flapper.
In normal toilets there is a hose that comes off the refill valve that is positioned over a tube. That tube fills the bowl.
Check for a black rubber hose that has become disconnected or kinked and is not spraying water into the fill tube.
note the rubber hose in this picture. There is a clip on the end that directs it into the fill tube.