Worried about over tightening bolts when attaching tank to bowl.

[Chris Branscome]

This is my first time to install a new toilet and I'm installing an AS Champion. When I set the tank on the bowl, there's a ton of play - and I'm sure I have the gasket seated all the way on the tank. I've been cranking on the supplied nuts with the supplied plastic tool and I'm close to china on china, but I'm having to wrench it pretty good. I'm a little afraid that I'm going to crack the porcelain. Should it take a fair amount of force to tighten it down?

 

[Peterson]

The tank should be tightly bolted to the bowl and there should not be hardly any wobble with it. The gasket might be extra spongy since it's new?

 

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[Reach4]

Use a piece of paper or a thin business card to check that it will fit between the ceramic contact points. Press the tank to the side to maximize each gap, to see how close you are getting.

Fair amount of force if your wrench is short.