WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.900 The first thing we're going to do is shut the water off to the flushometer. 2 00:00:18.910 --> 00:00:22.350 So we're going to turn the water off here at the control stop, 3 00:00:22.950 --> 00:00:26.580 and once the water is off, we hit the handle to remove any pressure. 4 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:30.090 Then at this point we're going to unscrew the cover 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:34.320 and we're going to take the inside parts out. 6 00:00:37.650 --> 00:00:39.060 We're going to remove the handle 7 00:00:41.070 --> 00:00:43.680 because we don't need any parts through the valve body. 8 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:48.870 And then at that point we loosen the vacuum breaker coupling. 9 00:00:49.050 --> 00:00:51.600 We're not going to take it off, we're just going to loosen it, 10 00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:55.740 and then we're going to break free the stop here. So at that point, 11 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:56.730 once that's done, 12 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:00.300 what we're going to do is we're going to take the vacuum breaker coupling all 13 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:01.133 the way down, 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.090 and then we're going to loosen this and slide the valve body out. 15 00:01:06.090 --> 00:01:06.990 Once you do this, 16 00:01:06.990 --> 00:01:11.040 water is going to spill out. So it's a good idea to have some towels handy to 17 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.770 wrap around the vacuum breaker to catch that excess water. 18 00:01:14.070 --> 00:01:16.290 And then you just dump the water into the toilet. 19 00:01:16.830 --> 00:01:20.160 So at that point we have the valve body of which we have to change this tail 20 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:24.780 piece out. On the bottom of the valve body on the diaphragm body, 21 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:26.880 which is the Royal, the Regal, and the Sloan, 22 00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:28.740 you'll see there's one lug in here. 23 00:01:28.770 --> 00:01:31.770 The diameter of this is a one and a half inch diameter. 24 00:01:32.310 --> 00:01:37.140 What I've done is I've taken a close bar and cut it to two feet long, 25 00:01:37.530 --> 00:01:42.240 and I just marked it here because the important part is when you're putting the 26 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:44.100 pipe into the valve body, 27 00:01:44.430 --> 00:01:49.170 you don't want to extend beyond the first quarter inch inside the 28 00:01:49.170 --> 00:01:50.280 base of the valve body. 29 00:01:50.910 --> 00:01:55.680 So this way it's all solid brass around here. Never do you want to go through 30 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:56.550 the valve body. 31 00:01:56.730 --> 00:02:00.690 This puts torque or stress onto the bore of the body, 32 00:02:00.690 --> 00:02:02.910 and we do not want to at all. 33 00:02:02.910 --> 00:02:07.800 We do not want to risk warping this or bending it or shifting it 34 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:12.690 because then the valve body is useless and it will cause all kinds of 35 00:02:12.690 --> 00:02:13.590 flush problems. 36 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:18.900 Another method to attach to the valve body to remove it is we offer flush 37 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:21.450 connection fittings. This here is the F22. 38 00:02:21.930 --> 00:02:25.650 What this is is a flange connection to a one inch pipe fitting. 39 00:02:26.220 --> 00:02:27.960 We offer 'em in half inch, 40 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:32.010 and this is for connecting to a pipe if you needed to. In this case, 41 00:02:32.010 --> 00:02:36.960 what I've done is I've used the F22 and screwed it into a two foot 42 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:41.100 long, one inch pipe and an F22 coupling, 43 00:02:41.190 --> 00:02:46.050 and then I just rolled an O-ring around the end of it to keep the coupling 44 00:02:46.050 --> 00:02:47.220 from falling off. 45 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.200 So this is my breaker bar and this will screw onto the bottom of the valve body. 46 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.310 And the reason why I prefer this method is because with the 47 00:03:00.310 --> 00:03:02.560 different type of valve bodies that we have, 48 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:07.390 these lugs can get in the way and you'll have to use a smaller pipe. 49 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:09.790 And by doing so, 50 00:03:09.790 --> 00:03:13.300 you can risk warping the bottom end when you're putting your pipe through to 51 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:16.930 unscrew it off of the tailpiece removal tool. 52 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.520 So what we offer is the tailpiece removal tool. This is hardened tool steel, 53 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.730 and it's seven eighths by seven sixteenths by six inches long. 54 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.500 And this is what you're going to use to put into the vice and you lock it down. 55 00:03:29.530 --> 00:03:34.390 So then that way we're going to place the valve body over that 56 00:03:34.780 --> 00:03:36.610 and then we're going to attach to the bottom of it. 57 00:03:37.990 --> 00:03:41.980 When it comes to the top mounted flushometers that use the G2, 58 00:03:41.980 --> 00:03:46.750 the ecos, the solace or the Sloan Optima plus flushometers, 59 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.820 what we're looking at is a valve body. We refer to the 60 00:03:51.820 --> 00:03:55.930 EBV-36-A as is the body. It's the squatty body. There is no handle port. 61 00:03:56.260 --> 00:03:57.340 So in this case here, 62 00:03:57.340 --> 00:04:00.100 you're not going to be able to stick anything through long enough to get any 63 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:04.450 leverage. So this is why I recommend using the F22, 64 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:07.030 the F2, and then a one inch pipe. 65 00:04:07.030 --> 00:04:10.810 So this way we're connecting to the bottom of the valve body and we just tighten 66 00:04:10.810 --> 00:04:15.550 this up and we're not going to risk putting any awkward stress on the 67 00:04:15.550 --> 00:04:19.600 body and warping it. Never ever do we put valve bodies into a vice. 68 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:22.540 It will squeeze the brass and bend and warp it. 69 00:04:23.230 --> 00:04:28.090 So we're going to use the H-530 tailpiece removal tool and we're going 70 00:04:28.090 --> 00:04:32.170 to go out to the shop and remove a tailpiece and replace the tailpiece. 71 00:04:32.740 --> 00:04:37.720 So we're here in the shop now we got ourselves a vice where we can properly 72 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:42.250 remove the tailpiece. And the thing to remember is the reason why we take the 73 00:04:42.250 --> 00:04:45.310 body off of the tail is because this is brass. 74 00:04:45.340 --> 00:04:48.340 So you can't put the valve body into a vice. 75 00:04:48.340 --> 00:04:52.480 What's going to wind up happening is you're going to actually deform the body. 76 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.710 You'll crush it because brass is soft. You don't want to take a pipe wrench, 77 00:04:56.710 --> 00:05:01.270 you don't want to hold the body into the vice and then take a pipe wrench to the 78 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:04.090 tailpiece. What we need to do is properly secure it. 79 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.200 You try to put a pipe wrench on this tailpiece, it'll warp, 80 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:11.830 and what you'll wind up doing is begin rounding out the threads and deforming 81 00:05:11.830 --> 00:05:12.663 that as well. 82 00:05:12.910 --> 00:05:17.110 So we have our H-530 tailpiece removal tool locked into the device. Again, 83 00:05:17.110 --> 00:05:19.840 we don't want it sticking up too far because we don't want it to pass through 84 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:24.280 the tail and hit the bore. Inside the tailpiece is there are lugs 85 00:05:24.760 --> 00:05:28.690 cast in there or, for the longer tails, machined in there. 86 00:05:29.230 --> 00:05:34.120 And so this is what the corners are catching on is the lugs inside the tail. 87 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:35.800 So we're going to put it on there. 88 00:05:36.640 --> 00:05:39.670 It's bowing out in the tail so we're not hitting the valve body here. 89 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:45.040 So what some do is they take hard wood rod one and a quarter inch diameter and 90 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.800 they'll pass it into the valve body here. 91 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.600 You don't want to try to pass all the way through. 92 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.620 You just want it to catch into the middle of the valve body and then it's long 93 00:05:53.620 --> 00:05:54.760 enough to get some torque, 94 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:58.760 but you don't want to risk this breaking because you may wind up getting hurt or 95 00:05:59.000 --> 00:05:59.750 worse. 96 00:05:59.750 --> 00:06:04.610 So we have a F22 97 00:06:04.610 --> 00:06:09.560 fitting and what this is is it's a one and a half inch flange fitting with a 98 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:14.270 pipe thread. This primary use is for connecting a flushometer 99 00:06:14.510 --> 00:06:19.070 to a pipe that might be flushing a drain or a rim flushing drain and sorts like 100 00:06:19.070 --> 00:06:19.903 that. 101 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:25.820 And I just took 24 inches of cast iron pipe and I screwed it into 102 00:06:25.820 --> 00:06:28.640 the bottom of it. I use an F2 coupling, 103 00:06:28.670 --> 00:06:32.060 which is the coupling that'll connect to the bottom of the valve body. 104 00:06:32.450 --> 00:06:36.680 And then I just took a couple of O-rings and wrap it over here on the bottom. 105 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.750 This way I don't lose the coupling, 106 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:41.930 so I connect it to the bottom of the valve body 107 00:06:44.150 --> 00:06:48.740 and this way I got positive clamp to the bottom of the body, 108 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:52.280 there's going to be no movement, and this is a very strong part of the valve, 109 00:06:52.280 --> 00:06:54.500 so I'm not going to risk bending or warping anything. 110 00:06:54.770 --> 00:06:59.240 So at this point then what I'm going to do is I'm going to unscrew the 111 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.980 body off of the tail. And so once it's 112 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:08.900 loose I'll disconnect it and what this will wind up doing is 113 00:07:09.530 --> 00:07:13.430 be loose enough that I can unscrew it the rest of the way off. 114 00:07:13.970 --> 00:07:15.230 And so here you want to be careful, 115 00:07:15.230 --> 00:07:18.890 we don't want to drop the valve body because anytime you drop it and put a dent 116 00:07:18.890 --> 00:07:22.670 on there, you're going to wind up warping the threads, one of the many threads. 117 00:07:22.670 --> 00:07:25.040 So the tail piece is still a good tail piece. 118 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.760 So what we're going to reuse is the coupling, 119 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:30.170 the H-550 coupling. 120 00:07:30.530 --> 00:07:35.150 Be very careful though. If this has been used quite a bit in the past 121 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.460 say because of leaking tail or they replaced the tail one 122 00:07:40.460 --> 00:07:42.200 time before and this was used, 123 00:07:42.410 --> 00:07:44.840 you want to make sure that this isn't mulled up at all, 124 00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:48.680 that you don't see any splintering. If you see a lot of teeth marks on this, 125 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.630 that means it's seen stress and we would advise you to replace it with a new 126 00:07:53.630 --> 00:07:58.310 H-550 coupling. And then you'll take your new tail, 127 00:07:58.580 --> 00:08:03.440 which this is the next longer tail, they're longer by one inch increments, 128 00:08:03.740 --> 00:08:07.190 and we go all the way up to quite a few inches longer in case you missed the 129 00:08:07.190 --> 00:08:09.320 roughen. The reason being is 130 00:08:11.150 --> 00:08:14.300 once you are screwing everything in and you missed your gap, 131 00:08:14.330 --> 00:08:19.250 the standard is between the stop, the center of the stop and the center of 132 00:08:19.250 --> 00:08:20.120 the valve body. 133 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:23.960 We're talking about four and three quarters plus or minus a half inch. 134 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:28.430 So if we're just shy of making contact, you only need one inch longer. 135 00:08:28.430 --> 00:08:32.930 And what we're going to do is we're going to measure between the center of the 136 00:08:32.930 --> 00:08:35.960 stop and the valve body to know how far we're going to go. 137 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:40.730 Because if a two and a 16th inch or for ease of language, 138 00:08:40.910 --> 00:08:45.560 a two inch tail is good for four and a quarter to five and a 139 00:08:45.560 --> 00:08:49.430 quarter. So a three inch will be good from five and a quarter and six and a 140 00:08:49.430 --> 00:08:50.120 quarter. 141 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.530 And if you go online to our website at sloan.com and you bring up tail pieces, 142 00:08:54.530 --> 00:08:58.620 you'll see the whole chart that shows you what all the increments are for the 143 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:03.060 longer tails because sometimes you might miss by quite a bit or what in some 144 00:09:03.060 --> 00:09:08.010 cases what some people do to prevent theft is they actually use the valve 145 00:09:08.010 --> 00:09:12.690 body with the handle on the side at a 90 degree angle and they'll put the stop 146 00:09:12.690 --> 00:09:16.290 behind the wall so that way the shutoff valve can't be hampered with. 147 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:17.520 In that case, 148 00:09:17.520 --> 00:09:20.790 they've used a longer an eight inch tailpiece to go all the way through, 149 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.550 but in this case here, say we're shy, 150 00:09:23.610 --> 00:09:27.510 we're a little bit too wide as long as between the 151 00:09:28.350 --> 00:09:30.210 inside of the O-ring, 152 00:09:30.270 --> 00:09:35.010 and when I mean the inside is the edge where this locking ring will tighten up 153 00:09:35.010 --> 00:09:38.550 to the inside edge there, if we're within one inch, 154 00:09:38.550 --> 00:09:42.600 that tells us we only need the next longer tail. If we're two inches and we get 155 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:46.440 the next longer tail by two inches. So in this case here, 156 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.130 I got the next longer tail. This is a three and a 16 inch one. 157 00:09:50.190 --> 00:09:53.430 I've already cleaned the inside here. 158 00:09:53.430 --> 00:09:58.110 I take my brass brush and I'm going to clean up anything that's loose because we 159 00:09:58.110 --> 00:10:00.270 don't want to push through anything. 160 00:10:00.270 --> 00:10:04.080 What'll wind up happening is it can cause a run on. 161 00:10:04.530 --> 00:10:08.310 And so I'm going to reuse my tailpiece. Make sure you slide it on that. 162 00:10:08.310 --> 00:10:12.930 The threads of the tailpiece face away from the threads of the 163 00:10:12.930 --> 00:10:13.763 coupling. 164 00:10:14.010 --> 00:10:18.720 And we're going to apply pipe sealant to the first couple of 165 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:19.553 threads here. 166 00:10:20.280 --> 00:10:24.090 This way we ensure it gets a good seal and we get some lubrication in there 167 00:10:24.090 --> 00:10:28.620 while we drive it in. We don't want to use excess. It'll just squeeze out. 168 00:10:29.190 --> 00:10:31.920 And what you're going to wind up doing is a lot more cleaning up. 169 00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:35.790 So we're just going to paste it on here, the lead threads, 170 00:10:35.790 --> 00:10:37.770 the rest will work its way through. 171 00:10:40.920 --> 00:10:43.680 And essentially what we do is we're going to feed it in by hand. 172 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:47.610 And when we do this, I usually back off a little bit. 173 00:10:47.610 --> 00:10:52.350 This way it leaves a little in front of it just enough there that it'll 174 00:10:52.350 --> 00:10:53.310 sweep into it. 175 00:10:53.790 --> 00:10:58.650 And then I'm placing my body and tail over there and going to tighten it up by 176 00:10:58.650 --> 00:11:00.870 hand to a point. 177 00:11:00.870 --> 00:11:04.560 This will reduce the amount of turning around there when I got a big old pipe to 178 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:05.393 swing around. 179 00:11:07.170 --> 00:11:11.520 So I'm going to tighten up my homemade tool here. 180 00:11:11.850 --> 00:11:15.900 Again, F22 and an F2 coupling, a one inch F22. 181 00:11:16.350 --> 00:11:21.330 And this will give me room with this on here to 182 00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:24.510 swing it around. And when we tighten this up, 183 00:11:25.230 --> 00:11:27.780 you're going to tighten it up until you see the threads bury, 184 00:11:27.780 --> 00:11:32.100 and they'll come in flush on the inside of the valve body once I finish 185 00:11:33.090 --> 00:11:36.930 and you can feel it, get good and tight. Okay, 186 00:11:36.930 --> 00:11:41.340 so we've flushed the threads of the tailpiece 187 00:11:41.880 --> 00:11:42.713 into the body. 188 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:47.700 You see the excess squeezed out all the way around and you see it's 189 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:51.360 flush onto the inside. And that's what we're looking for. 190 00:11:51.810 --> 00:11:54.130 So now that I've installed my new tail piece, 191 00:11:54.130 --> 00:11:59.020 I can remove my tool from the bottom of the valve body and then we're 192 00:11:59.020 --> 00:12:03.550 good to go to rebuild it, 193 00:12:03.550 --> 00:12:06.850 put the diaphragm in her cover, cover on there and my handle assembly. 194 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.450 We're going to slide it into the stop, line it up and tighten it up, 195 00:12:10.450 --> 00:12:12.880 and we're good to go. So this segment, 196 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:17.050 we showed you how to replace the tailpiece properly without causing any damage 197 00:12:17.050 --> 00:12:20.080 to the valve body. Again, because it's all brass, we got to be very careful. 198 00:12:20.800 --> 00:12:25.780 But one thing we do do is offer the valve bodies with longer tail 199 00:12:25.780 --> 00:12:29.050 pieces preassembled. So if you jump online, 200 00:12:29.110 --> 00:12:33.580 type in sloan.com, that's S-L-O-A-N.com, 201 00:12:33.970 --> 00:12:36.520 and you type into the search window tail pieces, 202 00:12:36.760 --> 00:12:40.450 it'll bring up all the references relating to the tail pieces, 203 00:12:40.450 --> 00:12:44.740 including you'll see a PDF file that shows you all the valve bodies that we 204 00:12:44.740 --> 00:12:47.920 offer with the next longer increments of tail pieces, 205 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:50.740 whether it's the manual one with the handle port, 206 00:12:50.950 --> 00:12:55.570 or if you get the top mount battery version there where you won't see the valve 207 00:12:55.570 --> 00:12:58.180 body with a handle port. They're all listed there. 208 00:12:58.180 --> 00:13:01.420 So this way you can purchase 'em ahead of time or have some in stock in case 209 00:13:01.420 --> 00:13:04.540 this happens. What this will do is save you time out on the job, 210 00:13:04.780 --> 00:13:06.880 whereas if you have it on the truck, go grab it, 211 00:13:07.030 --> 00:13:11.080 you put it in there and you got one that's ready set to go. And this way, 212 00:13:11.350 --> 00:13:15.670 because a lot of times you don't have a vice on hand at a job site to be able to 213 00:13:15.670 --> 00:13:19.630 change a tail piece, it'll save you all that time. One other thing, 214 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.450 if you happen to have ground joint tail pieces, 215 00:13:23.020 --> 00:13:26.080 the lugs are the same dimensions on the inside of the tail. 216 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:28.960 The tail pieces are in quarter inch longer increments, 217 00:13:28.990 --> 00:13:33.610 and you want to be as exact as possible because a ground joint tail is brass to 218 00:13:33.610 --> 00:13:36.700 brass. There is no adjustability sliding in and out with the stop. 219 00:13:37.060 --> 00:13:40.510 So there you have it, how to change tail pieces with the valve bodies. 220 00:13:40.690 --> 00:13:42.250 Thanks for spending time.