help me fix my toilet

[rm]

It won't flush. According to the diagram here (http://www.hometips.com/hyhw/plumbing/88toilet.html) and our inspection of the thing the line from the trip lever to the flapper or seat ball, which in this diagram is shown as two things hooked together in our toilet was just a long plastic strip that has now snapped off.

I don't trust the management company to deal with this in a timely way, and I clearly need to get more than just the line as I need a new flapper since the line broke off the flapper. But I can't figure out how many parts I need to buy or how to unconnect and connect things.

Um, so what do I buy? How do I do this? Should I just call a plummber? I don't need a new toilet do I?

ETA: if I pull up the flapper manually, it does work.

Comments

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Most of that stuff is replaceable as a kit. I know this sounds funny, but take a picture of it and take it to ye olde hardware store and say you need a replacement for the innards - show them the pic and there you go. I've had to replace those assemblies before. It's not all that diffucult - you could replace the piece of plastic that runs between the trip lever and the flapper with fishing line ( any sporting goods dept. at a K-Mart or what have you ) as a temporary fix.