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   WayneL5 | Oct 28, 2004 03:23am | #1

   Several things come to mind which you may already have tried.  Check that the float level is adjusted so that the water level is below the overflow tube.  Open the flapper valve and run your finger along the sealing surfaces of both the flap and the seat to make sure there is no lump of crud or a gouge.  It's possible there is a crack or hole in the overflow tube or base.

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   IMERC | Oct 28, 2004 03:29am | #2

   It may be siphoning... water level a tad high...

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   burloon | Oct 29, 2004 01:44am | #6

   Yep, it was siphoning.  Thanks so much!

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   IMERC | Oct 29, 2004 02:33am | #7

   No problem...

   Tube set too deep or water level too high???

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

   WOW!!!   What a Ride!

   Edited 10/28/2004 7:53 pm ET by IMERC

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   DanH | Oct 29, 2004 04:52am | #8

   Same difference.

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   Dinosaur | Oct 28, 2004 04:01am | #3

   Sometimes the fill valve on new toilets is really stiff, and takes a good amount of force to be really closed.  Try bending the float arm, and then adjust the level by using the screw on the valve actuating arm.  Your goal is to get the tank to fill as high on the float body as possible. The deeper that float is sitting in the water, the harder it is pushing up on the arm.

   Sometimes pulling the bowl-top-up tube out of the overflow channel and directing it into the tank itself will help fill the tank just a bit higher on the float, as it tends to close after the main fill line. You don't usually need the top-up function anyway; most of that water just goes down the drain for no purpose.

   Dinosaur

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   DanH | Oct 28, 2004 05:34am | #4

   Siphoning. Check that the fill tube that runs from the inlet valve into the overflow tube terminates ABOVE the waterline in the tank.

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   burloon | Oct 29, 2004 01:42am | #5

   That did it! It was siphoning, now that I think about it, of course!  Thanks so much!