How to Remove a Garbage Disposal

How to Remove a Garbage Disposal
Michael Raines. Expert Village. Well, we have to take out the disposal. Down on our hands and knees, getting dirty, pulling it out. We've got to pull the drain off, we've got to pull out the dishwasher vent, we have to pull off the electrical. So let's first get the drain off. So this is our drain. It's connected here to the disposal unit and this is where the disposal unit drains down through a little loop and out to the sewer. So we need to take off this here. Let me see if I can't do it by hand. Got it. Okay, that's one part that has to come off. Now we can see that that's loose and it will pull out. And we might even want to loosen this up, so the pipe slides down. Look at that. So now we're loose. Alright. Here's what's got to happen. This phalange has to slide this way. And the way you can do it is by using the screwdriver in here and just prying slowly and gently. Because it is a rubber gasket, you don't want to tear it. So we've loosened up. Now we persuade it a little more, it comes down, there. Okay. There's our disposal. Doesn't look like the greatest, it's pretty beat up. This rubber thingy, it's called a splash guard. And this is what we need to replace on this machine. There's the splash guard, worn out. And here's the insides of our nasty little disposal unit. Now you can turn the disposal unit and you can see the stainless steel teeth. The rest of it is cast iron and aluminum. And it's kind of rusted out and worn out. But it's still in good shape and it turns inside. So the gears and everything are okay. There's no gears, it's just strictly a motor. It's an AC motor that turns and turns and turns. So now, we have to check the electrical that's underneath here to make sure everything's good and tight there. And see what's going on. So this is our electrical feed in here. It bolts up to the disposal here and is accessed through this little door here. We're going to unscrew this and access the wires and make sure that there's nothing loose.