Cleaning an R&T toilet fill valve

vegan_vicky

I have a toilet with an R&T fill valve, unknown model. The top of the fill valve is leaking out spurts of water making a hissing sound. I'd like to clean it by opening it. So far I was able to remove the top blue cap and horizontal pin. The difficult parts trying to remove this white cap with the two parallel lines. I used this previous DIY stack exchange post 's instructions: Take a pair of standard (not needlenose) pliers and grip the two...

Originally asked by user2122449 on Stack Exchange (diy) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Hold the bottom part firmly and use pliers to grab the top between the two plastic pieces that stick up. Push down kind of hard and turn the white part counter clockwise about a quarter of a turn. The pull it up

Full answer by Mark: https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/298487 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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