Water Softeners and Air Filtration Systems - Remove Brine Valve assembly water softener

I know this should be easy but I can't get the brine valve assembly out of the brine tank. Never done it before. I have a Sears model 625.348571. Is is attached somehow?

Someone? I don't want to have to call for service but I may have too if I can't get some help here.
Thanks, Kathy

Wow, lots of help here.

Anyhow, I have spoken with Sears and they said it should just lift out, (someone here could have told me that) and that there may be a salt block that it is frozen into so to try hot water. I'm doing that but still it's tight as a drum. Must be like a salt block for a horse or something. What a disaster.

Salt may have gotten down into the brine well where the float is. It then dissolves and clogs up in the bottom. Take a flash light, look down the brine well tube to the bottom, below the float, if there is salt there, dump some hot water there to dissolve it and work the float out. The float assembly may be attached the side of the brine well also by a screw and nut. Why are you trying to take out the float assembly?

Waterray

I have had this problem before. I've taken a garden hose a stick it down the brine well. Turn on the water as you pull up on the brine valve. Don't pull to hard as you might break it. If it doesn't come out, turn the water off. You could try bursts of water in the brine well so as to not fill up the brine tank.