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  • Headhunter Toilet Seat

    Posted by Archived on May 26, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    Our Headhunter toilet seat is a standard long Kohler seat. I’d like to replace it with a “soft close” seat.

    It appears that there is no easy access to the underside of the two screws that hold the seat to the toilet. I don’t want to loosen and unscrew the seat if I have to pull the toilet to install the new slow close seat.

    Do the screws go in to a capture nut or does the toilet actually have to be removed to get access to the underside?

    Thanks!

    Jonathan replied 8 years, 3 months ago 6 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Ronald

    Member
    May 26, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    I think you have to get at the underside of the toilet Les, but that is a guess. You can find out if you are willing to be a risk taker.

    Loosen one of the fasteners. At some point it will be so loose that if the nut is not captive you will not be able to loosen it any more because the nut will just spin because it is not in contact with anything to resist spinning. If you can unscrew the entire fastened and you don’t hear the nut or rear threaded portion drop to the floor behind the toilet life is good.

    If it is not a captive nut and you don’t want to go any further hold something under the leg on the toilet seat assembly to pull the nut back into contact with something so you can re-tighten it.

    Or you can just contact Headhunter and ask them the question, but what’s the fun in doing the safe thing?????

  • William

    Member
    May 26, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    Maybe I’ll just let the toilet seat bang a little while until I know for sure.

    Thanks Jon.

  • Fred F.

    Member
    May 26, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    Be sure to check if the standard toilet seat will fit your Headhunter, it does not on a Microphor.

  • Art

    Member
    May 27, 2018 at 7:19 am

    Les, just include the toilet seat on the pre-trip check list. We always would put it down before driving so it would not bang when we were moving.

    Now we have the slow close seat and we have removed that item from the check list.

    But there ain’t no way I would change seats just to get that feature. We have it because I changed the entire toilet and the new toilet had it.

  • Jonathan

    Member
    May 27, 2018 at 9:39 am

    With dogs, we always have our toilets fully closed up. None of this foolishness of cover up, seat down… You never see toilets advertised with them open. You never see show homes with them open. I don’t want to look in your toilet as I walk by your bathroom….

    Also, our dogs don’t need to think of them as procelain water bowls… 🙂 🙂

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