X2 on all above and your giving them all the easy work and your doing all the nasty work. After you get toilet out, replacing the parts or cleaning the blade is the easiest. And you still have to put it back in and that is you drive around to and from place where you're getting it re-built. They getting all your gravy (so to speak). Very hard to install a re-build kit and have it not work right, even if you get any parts in backwards or whatever. Just take it apart again and study instructions again. In mean time just have water line plugged off. Either with a plug bolt or if broken when using it somewhere just bend over plastic line and crimp with vice grips. Just saying