You ever have one of those lives :
The bolts on the toilet seat/lid didn't loosen up after soaking and I managed to break off one trying to snap it loose. The other nut I planned on using the dremel I lugged over to the farm in its nice plastic carrying case to cut it off....well at least I had a nice case to work with, the dremel unfortunately was sitting on a workbench at home...note to self always CHECK the contents of a tool case BEFORE leaving home
I did have the arbor and abrasive disks I was going to use so I chucked the arbor up in a drill and went to work 15 or so disks later I was able to chisel off the nut and remove the seat.
The rest went easy enough, I re threaded the bolts with a die and dug up some washers and nuts, applied some black grease to the threads so hopefully I can get the nuts off again in the future and assembled the toilet and voila a nice tight seat/lid...I'm Happy
Place toilet back on floor flange and attach the feed line...Check.
Put rear nut on and spin it down by hand..check........wait...brain flash...I didn't hook up the one plastic hose that goes up to the bowl top since it was in the way of the seat bolts......AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG....Reverse above and take toilet back out to the bench..hook up hose...reverse-reverse above and actually get toilet in place and tightened down...fire up the pump and BINGO...no leaks that I can see....I am once again HAPPY ;D
I reattached the water hose and filled up the tank about half way so I'd have water to play with if I needed it and unhooked and drained the hoses. Turn on pump and wait for it to cycle...and wait...and wait...and wait...something's wrong...now whats wrong....must go to my happy place...must go... wait I remember that the tank had been real low when I last turned on the pump could I have sucked air and somehow vapor locked the pump...Turn on the cold water faucet and let it go until it just trickles...turn on pump and hear it cycle and slow down as pressure builds up then it stops...Yea!!! All is good and I'm once again happy ;D
Wait..I hear dripping and now I see a wet spot near the pump...happy place...happy place...where the H@#L is that happy place.
Start digging and find out that one of the pipe connections going to the pressurized water tank, the kind you prefill with air to keep the pressure steady, is dripping and so is the hose connecting to the adapter that is connected to it. Unconnect the hose from the pump and flip the tank over...ten minutes of searching for the right wrench and another 5 to take it apart and add more Teflon tape and I back assembling the system again. Now to test...turn on pump...sounds strange kinda faint and slow...maybe I have it locked up again...open faucet...just a brief surge and then a dribble...turn on pump and a small stream flows and the pump still sounds weird....close faucet and listen for pump to start straining as the pressure builds...wait...wait...wait...all I hear is the pump getting fainter and fainter....now what!!
Is the pump bad or is it the converter??? I measured the 12 volt line and it appears to be 10 volts and the converter seemed a bit on the hot side. I had all of the lights on and the pump going so maybe I got it too hot and it dropped to 10 volts??? Would a Shureflow (sp?) pump be that picky of the voltage level?? or am I missing something else. ???
AND WHERE THE #%$^&@*$# is that HAPPY PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe I need to lubricate the way to it with something containing alcohol.......