Toilet tank looses water over time
Have replaced all valve and seal parts... new gasket between tank and seat; new fill valve; new flush valve ***'y in-total... but toilet continues to slowly loose water. Did not have any specs on how tight to torque bolts that hold tank to seat, when replaced rubber gasket... and afraid to "over tighten"... any ideas?
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As long as there is no water leaking from the tank to bowl connection, you are OK. You would know if it was leaking here, because you would have water dripping out onto the floor.
Verify that the water level in your tank is below the top of your new flush valve's overflow tube. If the water level comes to the top, it will overflow into the toilet bowl. This can be easily fixed with an adjustment to the fill valve.
If the water is not overflowing into this tube, then the only way you can lose water is through the flapper. You said you changed the flush valve, which would have come with a new flapper attached to it, but maybe buy a new flapper and see what happens???
Place 3 or 4 drops of dark food dye in the tank and watch where the dye goes you may have an imperfection on the seat that the tank ball (flapper) sets down on to seal the water from leaking into the bowl. if that is the problem Fluidmaster has a repair kit for this that will epoxy a new seat inside of the old seat just follow instructions.