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You have to take the toilet apart which is very simple to do and separate the bowl from the flusher. It's only a couple of screws. The issue is the ball valve needs another 1/16th of an inch to fully seal. you can clearly see that when you take the unit apart. The fix is you need to shave down the plastic that the foot pedal rests up against when in the closed position. The plastic that needs to shaved is square looking and has a flat side that the foot pedal mechanism rests or stops up against.
Take a utility knife and start shaving or cutting it like slicing cheese until the valve closes the 16th of inch.
Since I've done this, I have not had any water leaking since the repair and I had the unit sitting for a couple of months.
So far my fix has been holding water for almost a year now. But now the china portion of the toilet is sliding back and forth. When I return home I will try and tighten it.
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