It obviously is not so easy for this gentlemen as well as the many others I have had to end up helping with this problem. Its an exceedingly poor practice and problamatic most particularly for newbies. There are many far better ways to set up a tank and plumbing.

Yetti I highly reccomend you back up the tank. If the tank is damaged I would suggest using a Hayes type It cannot be inserted and is far easier to set up, in my opinion the most reliable and trouble free type of all the others.