Rv toilet ball valve won

Thanks for visiting the RV Repair Club site and the opportunity to assist with your toilet issue. Depending on the model and year, your toilet valve will either have a flat “spade” valve that is a piece of flat plastic that slides back and forth into a rubber gasket that is supposed to seal and hold water, or a rounded valve in the newer style. What is a toilet ball? Can You flush a toilet with a RV? Are rv toilets made of plastic?

The toilet flush ball is actually one-half a ball.

It has a locking screw on the underside that locks it to the brass ball shaft. The ball has a Teflon seal over it and a rubber bowl seal over that. Dometic says letting the ball valve slam shut is the reason the spring breaks. Go to Amazon and order a new spring cartridge.

You may as well replace the gasket since you will have the toilet apart. If the ball valve has any nicks or scratches, polish them out before re-assembly. Most likely it is due to debris stuck in the seal.

You will want to hold the valve open and use a screw driver to go aroung the edge of the seal to clean it.

Then you need to tell everyone that uses it to flush correctly. Use enough water, open valve 1 when dumping, count to two if there is any solids in the bowl, then let valve snap shut. Another possible problem is that rotating ball flush valve getting gouged up. Though scotts may be gone, we had the same problem and learned a simple solution. Grease black gasket adjacent to the ball valve with petroleum jelly.

Turn off the water, empty water from the toilet bowl, put on a disposable glove, clean the black gasket and ball valve , and apply a little petroleum jelly. Repeat when the ball starts to stick again. Clean the little wire mesh screen filter on the incoming water supply side. The filter can get clogged and restrict water flow to the toilet. Disconnect the fresh water supply line and lift toilet straight up.

For Aqua-Magic IV, disconnect the water supply line from the water valve located on the rear of the toilet. Remove the nuts from the closet flange bolts located on each side of the toilet. Carefully lift and remove the toilet from the closet flange.

Then, close the valve , add about a quart of very hot tap water and let it set. The disk gets stuck due to lack of lubrication. Tickle the pedal just a bit so that some of the antifreeze escapes over the disk and into the black tank.

This will lubricate the seal. The sole purpose of this mechanism is to connect the toilet to the water supply.

Without this device, there would be no water available for the toilet to use. Fortunately, RV toilet manufacturers offer their customers with RV toilet repair parts. The ball seal can be changed in just a few minutes without removing the toilet from the floor.

Detailed replacement instruc-tions are included with replacement ball seal kits. Snap-in water valve cartridge – Allows easy replacement of worn or damaged water valves.