I removed the ballcock from our cold water tank to try and clean the valve which was hissing and leaking. I can't reconnect the ballcock. It is an old fitting> The ballcock is on a metal pole with, at the junction end, a right-angle piece of metal about 1.25 inches long shaped vaguely like a double-headed hammer. This 'hammer' part inserts into the valve and engages in what is effectively a piston in a tube, sliding it in or out to open/shut off the water supply. At the base of the 'hammer' is a hole for the split pin which holds the ballcock in place and about which it rotates.
I just can't seem to get the 'hammer' bit deep enough into the valve to engage the split pin. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. I didn't drain the tank so am fighting against the ballcock's buoyancy - Do I need to drain the tank so that the ballcock can hang down, to make fitting easier/possible? Or is it something to do with 'shuttle valve' - I suspect it may have a recess in it and it has revolved out of synch but if this is the case, I couldn't find the recess.
Any solutions?
I just can't seem to get the 'hammer' bit deep enough into the valve to engage the split pin. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. I didn't drain the tank so am fighting against the ballcock's buoyancy - Do I need to drain the tank so that the ballcock can hang down, to make fitting easier/possible? Or is it something to do with 'shuttle valve' - I suspect it may have a recess in it and it has revolved out of synch but if this is the case, I couldn't find the recess.
Any solutions?
