Tips for Removing Your OLD Drain | American Standard 7038 specification

TIPS FOR REMOVING YOUR OLD DRAIN:

Most existing drains can be removed quickly and easily with only a pair of channel- lock pliers or a wrench. However, there may be situations where it is difﬁcult to remove your old drain or determine how the drain is disassembled. Depending upon the existing Drain in your sink, it is either removed from above or below the sink. The illustrations below show some typical drain installations and how they are disassembled from the sink.

The following tips can help with some of the more common challenges in drain removal:

Loosen nuts on P-Trap using channel locks. Suggest spraying nuts with spray lubricant to loosen any corrosion or debris that may have built up. Remove P-Trap half from Tailpiece. Use bucket to catch any residual water in P-trap.

Unthread Pivot Rod Nut from Drain Body and remove. Pull Stopper out from Drain Body.

For Drains that are removed from below Sink:

Loosen Mounting Nut as far down as it will go. Push Drain Body up into Sink and unthread Flange from Drain Body. Remove Drain Body from below sink.

For Drains that are removed from above Sink:

Unthread Tailpiece from Drain Body.

Loosen and remove Mounting Nut and Gasket on Drain Body using channel locks. Suggest spraying nut with spray lubricant to loosen any corrosion or debris that may have built up. Push Drain Body up into the Sink and remove.

Note: If Drain body rotates while loosening Mounting Nut, insert a screw driver into overﬂow hole to prevent Drain Body from rotating while Mounting Nut is removed.

Required tools

Channel Locks

Adjustable Wrench

Phillips Screwdriver

WHEN DRAIN IS REMOVED		WHEN DRAIN IS REMOVED FROM ABOVE SINK
FROM BELOW SINK
METAL OR PLASTIC TWO PIECE		METAL DRAIN BODY WITH		PLASTIC DRAIN BODY
	DRAIN BODY	PLASTIC TAILPIECE		WITH PLASTIC TAILPIECE
		SCREWDRIVER
		STOPPER		STOPPER
	STOPPER	METAL
	STOPPER	DRAIN		PLASTIC
		DRAIN		PLASTIC
	UNTHREAD	BODY		DRAIN BODY
	FLANGE
SINK		SINK		SINK
METAL OR				PIVOT
PLASTIC		PIVOT	MOUNTING	PIVOT	MOUNTING
DRAIN BODY		PIVOT	MOUNTING	ROD NUT	MOUNTING
DRAIN BODY		ROD NUT	NUT and	ROD NUT	NUT and
		ROD NUT	NUT and		NUT and
	MOUNTING		GASKET		GASKET
PIVOT	NUT
PIVOT			PLASTIC		PLASTIC
ROD NUT			PLASTIC		PLASTIC
			TAILPIECE		TAILPIECE
FINISHED	P-TRAP	FINISHED	P-TRAP	FINISHED	P-TRAP
FINISHED	HALF	FINISHED	HALF	FINISHED	HALF
WALL	HALF	WALL	HALF	WALL	HALF
WALL		WALL		WALL
					M968868 Rev 1 . 2

7038 specifications

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