Toilet Lock Nut Stuck

Tap with a hammer.

Toilet lock nut stuck.

Most of the better companies supplied a brass lock nut and a brass coupling nut to connect the water supply tube. Then finish loosening the nut with your fingers. Empty the bucket and place it underneath the water supply line. Use caution as some of th.

Locate the coupling nut on the underside of the toilet tank. Some nuts have wings that you can grasp with your fingers. Super glued locknut on toilet fill valve under tank author. While turning these stabilize the bolt from above with a screwdriver.

How to remove a stubborn nut bolt. Moving the nut in any direction is progress. The end of the water supply line will come away from the connection. After breaking the fins off the nut while using wrench i tried holding the nut and turning the part in the tank.

To make sure you hit the nut itself and not the surrounding threads place a center punch on the nut and strike the punch with a hammer. Mamacanfixit mn i am trying to remove a plastic lock nut so i can replace the fill valve assembly. Jarring the nut can break its bond to the bolt. If the nuts don t have wings lock a pair of locking pliers around each one in turn.

Then try to loosen it using a correctly sized wrench. These are used in a toilet chiefly to secure the fill valve in the toilet tank. What s a sput nut any. Eventually and in an effort to save money some of the companies started shipping these ballcocks with a white metal nickel composite lock nut and coupling nut.

The lock nut threads onto the fill valve inlet just above where the water supply hose or tube coupling attaches. Use a pair of pliers to just loosen the coupling nut. So you probably won t run across this problem to. Gently pull the nut down.