afchap
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We have a problem on our Sealand Traveler toilet I have never heard mentioned before ??course, I imagine now that I mention it a dozen or so will have had the same failure. 
Just after I got into bed last night I heard the DW flush the commode ?and heard a loud ?SNAP? noise that was not normal ?and she immediately started yelling that the commode was ?broken.? The flush pedal stayed down with the flush ball open and water running. I found I could pull the pedal up to close the flush ball and turn the water off, but the pedal would not stay in the up position. I propped it up, took the flush valve loose from the side of the commode w/o removing either water line, then pulled the pedal assembly off and apart. I found that one end of the metal spring in the ?spring cartridge? had snapped off. After removing the remnants of the spring, I found I could re-install the cartridge and prop the pedal up with the commode brush holder/container to keep the flush ball closed. I left the water valve off so the pedal would not trigger it accidentally, and we can depress the valve plunger with a hand to ?flush? when we want to. This morning I was unable to find the part in stock locally, so ordered one to be in ?within a week.? At least we can work the manual flush option in the meantime!
Just after I got into bed last night I heard the DW flush the commode ?and heard a loud ?SNAP? noise that was not normal ?and she immediately started yelling that the commode was ?broken.? The flush pedal stayed down with the flush ball open and water running. I found I could pull the pedal up to close the flush ball and turn the water off, but the pedal would not stay in the up position. I propped it up, took the flush valve loose from the side of the commode w/o removing either water line, then pulled the pedal assembly off and apart. I found that one end of the metal spring in the ?spring cartridge? had snapped off. After removing the remnants of the spring, I found I could re-install the cartridge and prop the pedal up with the commode brush holder/container to keep the flush ball closed. I left the water valve off so the pedal would not trigger it accidentally, and we can depress the valve plunger with a hand to ?flush? when we want to. This morning I was unable to find the part in stock locally, so ordered one to be in ?within a week.? At least we can work the manual flush option in the meantime!
