Toilet Tank Flush Lever Replacement for Mansfield, Chrome Finish Handle

It's a sturdy lever.Because of the curvature of the front of my water tank, the handle pulls away from the sliding cylinder and causes it to get stuck in the flushing position. I tried the trick with bending the lever under a hair dryer on high heat setting, but it didn't work. I saw a similar lever at Home Depot at about half the price and with instructions to bend it at a specific place, but this lever doesn't have this feature. At least I couldn't bend it. Also, I had to cut off about 3 inches of the lever to put it through the loop on the side of the cylinder part. Since this caused the cylinder to get stuck, I went a different route.I simply attached the existing chain (seen on the attached picture) from the cylinder to the lever with plyers and now the whole thing is working perfectly. The root cause of issues with my lever that caused the original lever to break turned out to be an old flush valve gasket. It turned into mush (partially disintegrated) over time and caused the sliding cylinder to get stuck every time it went down and touched the gasket, which caused the lever to break under pressure when we tried to flush the toilet.

This is an exact replacement for my Mansfield toilet handle. To install, I had to saw off about 3 inches of the lever arm in order to fit the arm into the closed-loop toggle interface (third photo). The arm can't be threaded throught the loop without shortening the arm or disassembling the toilet tank. I chose to cut the arm. After sawing the part off, I rotated the valve cylinder so that the end of the arm can be indexed thought the loop and then rotated the cylinder back to operating position. (first and second photos).Another problem arose at this point as the lever arm was molded warped and was under constant pressure against the inside of the loop-toggle. Under this pressure the valve cylinder is jammed open and will not close. To fix this, I had to heat the elbow of the arm over the stove until it was at a right angle (you can see where I bent the arm just to the right of the elbow). This relieved the pressure and allowed the cylinder to drop freely after flushing.The part handle will probably work for many years but may break due to the poorly molded part. Because I had to heat the part to fix it, the plastic may be a little compromised due to inmolded stresses. The right part that eventually worked, but didn't arrive that way. They could use some lessons in plastic part design and molding.

this Unit is just what you pay for.Being PLastic it has a life span thats not that of metal.but being that the inside is plastic as well i would want thehandle to break first as the inside parts are harder to find and replace. ( and wouldn't you know it, not long after writing this review, i found the inside parts i may need, RIGHT HERE ON AMAZON. That figures, they seem to have EVERYTHING!!! thank you Amazon.)so this Handle is perfect for my needs.

Had to manipulate it some to get it to work.

I bought a new toilet seat and it would not stay up because the flush handle was in the way this one has a lower profile. Be aware that to remove the old and put on a new one .. it is RIGHTY LOOSEY, LEFTY TIGHTY!! I got mine really tight before I realized this .. lol ...

At first, I was hesitant to get this but figured I'd give it a go. The only thing is, you need to snap off a part of the plastic length (measure it first with the one you are replacing); turn the teacup handle on the other part (the part that is IN the tank) a bit counter-clockwise; that way, you can work (sorta have to force it, but it's fast) to get the plastic part into the teacup handle, then bring the teacup handle back (clockwise) so the plastic part is in the middle of the teacup handle. (Sounds more difficult than it is. Common sense and patience and you'll do fine! Replaced it about a month ago and, knock-on-wood, it's still flushing a-okay.)

I was able to make lever sum what function. Lever needed to be shortened to fit into flush valve. Lever's arm at wrong angle and applies too much pressure on flush valve and will not allow valve to return to closed position. Lever needs to be pulled up to close valve. Leaver is a temporary fix until the correct lever is received.

This was listed as a replacement for the Mansfield model 160 handle. Compared to the original, the plastic "rod" was a bit longer than the original but easily modified with a hacksaw. However, the original rod had a bend in it and this replacement was straight. Without the bend, it rod keeps the seal assembly from moving back down and the toilet keeps running. With the use of a hair dryer running on high and about 10 minutes of heating, the thermoplastic rod could be bent to conform to the shape of the original rod. Problem solved.