Thank you for this video! I’m a 24 year old single mother and wasn’t trying to spend the extra money for someone to come install my washer and dryer into my new place, I followed through and had both up and running in no time!

Those of you who are saying this is a bad video were not listening. You are asking about colors of wires when he clearly and specifically points out with the new cord that the middle wire (neutral) is the only one that needs to be where it is which is in the middle. The other two wires represents "hot". So If you switched the outer two it wouldn't make a difference. They both are hot!!!!! That's it, that's all!!! No need to match colored wires honey!!!

As someone with zero electrical experience , this video was simple and straight through. The green wire was just reconnected to the same place after the other green plug was removed. The most important piece of information is that the middle wire MUST BE hooked up to the middle plug. The other two that on each side of the middle wire are interchangeable. Doesn’t matter which side you put them on, but it would be simpler for you to just leave them in the order that they already are.

Thank you for the video. You evaporated some doubts I had about three prone and four prone swap. Keep up the good work.

I really wished he went in more detail with how he handled the green wire

I am scared to do this... But I have to 😭 I know if I do it right I am going to be so proud of myself. Thank you for posting.

i needed to see the actual hookup of the new cord.

Thanks for the tip on the screws not falling when you take out old cord- that’s going to save me from dropping them!

Thanks for the video. I would be lost without it honestly. Doing anything ‘power’ related scares me.

Watching the four-to-three and three-to-four prongs really helped and it worked. I did it, so thanks!

Thank you sir. I was not aware that a neutral double as a ground in 3 phase you duh man. My wife was upset when I told her I didn't think it was going to work.... YIKES

I'm not sure how much it matters, but in my owner's manual, it says when you connect the wire's green wire (4 conductor) to the ground screw on the chassis, that you MOVE that other green (it was white in my manual) to under the center terminal where the common wire will also connect. So black and red would be the same, and the common and the one connected to the dryer chassis would go on the center, and the green from the wire goes to the chassis screw. But when you change it back, basically you're just reversing the mistake, and it corrects itself.

Hello from Jacksonville! I moved last year and had to convert my 3 prong to a 4 prong, I just moved last weekend and guess what? I have to convert back to a 3 prong haha. That's life I guess.

Om-gosh, great video. Thank you so much. I was wondering if you could show the steps to wiring the green wire? Did you just cut it and turn it under? Thanks for your help! Keep making these great videos, it’s very empowering for me to learn this stuff!

Actually you don't have a chassis ground with a three prong plug. The industry added a ground plug to keep people from getting shocked if one of the phases happened to short to the chassis. On a three prong plug you have to run a separate ground from the green wire on the back of the dryer to a ground bar in the breaker box or to a ground wire in the dryer receptacle.

It would have been nice to see how he ran the green wire up into the unit. Had to find another video

We"ll just leave the ground chassis here! I BELIEVE? Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!

Might as well skip on ahead to 1:50 when he actually starts doing the thing

Question on the 4 prong do I leave the two green grounds together and not in middle with the neutral?

Success! Thank you for sharing.

This was super helpful. Thanks so much!! 10/10 would recommend

I was pretty sure but thanks for verifying! U may want to invest in some small sockets; I h8 flat screws!

Saved me time and money, thank you for posting!

Thanks for the video, I was able to change the cord all by myself!

Great video, some good laughs too. "Wrong tool time" "careful you don't lose the screws"😂

You sir deserve more likes

Thanks man I have been having dryer troubles.

Thank you so much this was a life saver for this single woman!

If you reverse the wires, it makes it very cold, like a fridge. Just kidding : ) Good video.

Appreciate the video helped me out so much !

Easy peasy traps a greasy. Saved me some money too. 10g 4 wire 6' cable is pricey

Thank you so much for this

Don't you love how one fix always turns into two LOL. Now onto the dryer vent :-) thanks for sharing.

Thank you.

This video was EXACTLY what I needed - thank you! I'm trying to surprise my hubby by finishing up the crappy/non-fun line items on his #HoneyDo list before he gets back from a business trip late tonight and your video allowed me to knock this one out with no problem. Thanks again!

Thank you

Thanks For this Vid saved me time and money Blessings to you

I'm going to try and do this . 🙏👍🏼

Thank you so much...You were good at explaining it..

Really doesn't sound like a professional, but what he's saying is right. Thanks for the video.

Excellent instructions, thank you!

Bro. Thanks so much. Blessings from Virginia.

thank you for your time to explain you are the best

Ideally you would change the receptacle, but if not feassble your solution will work. The original installer should have removed the neutral to equipment bond when the 4 prong cord was installed. It's a common error.

Thanks bubba... It was exactly what i was wrkin with lol

very thank full for you, thank you !!!! my dryer works great, thank you !!!!

This was a great video thank you

Great video!!! Keep it up, and thanks for helping us.

Perfect!! This was super helpful

Perfect. Got by dryer going. Thanks!!!

Thank you. For this video.i hope my dry will work after watching this

Man I have no experience with anything like this so the verbiage is a foreign language to me but I’m getting ready to do this myself. Will post again and let you know how it goes.

Where does the red wire come from? I can't be the only one doesn't have it I can't even find a video for it

Okay but I don't understand what you did with the green cord

Thank you and simple to understand.

Just got a new dryer, but it has a 4 prong cord, and I have a 3 prong outlet. Can I just use the old 3 prong cord from my old dryer and use it on the new one?

how do i install the ground wire?

Use a magnet on a stick to retrieve lost screws. Another honey-doo done.

Great video !! Thank you

Thanks

thank you so much for this video. i will give it a like. call me, this dude, and YOURSELF an electrician because damn i didn’t think i could do this till i watched this🤣

This is exactly what I was looking for, Thank You!

I'm going threw all these tutorials and none looks likes how my dryer connector is set up. So I got 3 pong going to 4.. now looking at how they had the 3 pong done,looking at it,the 3 connectors inside the dryer panel the black,white middle and red at end. Now the middle white don't have no screw and that middle one is left empty. The black and red gold connectors are connected but the 3rd one is hooked up to the screw kinda outside the dryer panel.its screwed it with a green wire going inside dryer somewhere. I don't know if I trust just hooking my 4th green wire to that?All these videos are different in way. Alot of them have that middle white connector connected and I seen videos with another white wire connected inside with the white middle connector but I don't see that. mines looks different. Oh goodness this sucks.it seems like I can match all 4 colors up but none of these tutorial videos have the same set up and explains well.

does this apply to stoves as well? i have a three prong connection on my old stove and just bought a new used stove that is a 4 prong stove i want to change out the cords . put the 3 prong cord on to my new used 4 prong stove can i do this

this had been the BEST tutorial i seen for this situation i got🙌🏼 thx soo much

This is the second video I’ve seen on this that shows everything EXCEPT the actual installation of the wires. Jeez.

Thank you!

That's an old dryer, the flat head screws and the back cover is old school.

Thanks bubba helped alot alot

What the heck you skipped the entire assembly

Okay, but our machine was already equipped with a 4-prong, so when trying to change it to a 3-prong I noticed the dryer does not have a ground wire. I searched the inside of the panel but I cannot locate it. What to do, sir?

Need a bonding jumper at terminals. Your technique is not "bonded". You are probably reading grounding conductivity through electronic circuitry. Plus a lot of dryer motors are 120v so you would have unbalanced neutral load. Also terminals are not "loose". Most dryer terminals are like that. The wire connections is only concern.

But you do not show which wire of the new cord goes to which terminal. You just show that you did it. All of the wires on the new replacement cord are the same color.

I ran into a problem my male 3 prong was a aftermarket plug I hooked it according to the right colors on my stove but low and behold the male plug was wired wrong the plug had the white wire hooked to the place where the red wire was to go. me not knowing this was done I shorted out a 300.00 circuit board.

“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” ― Aaron Levenstein the same can be said about this video. the only thing that is clear is that the middle wire goes to the middle wire. Uhh what was the mulit meter all about.. other than that ... great video

So did he just cut the green wire ?

got it up and running. thx

Definitely helpful, but What about a Stove? It is seen similar but isn't, so I'm stuck on that!

Thank you Sir, great video 🤘😎

In many panels the neutral and grounds are not together

Okay.. and what did you do with the ground

How do u knw which phase is which its no color coded or does it no matter?

Thank you so much for this, I went through the hassle of removing my outlet from old home, then undid the outlet for my new home, only to realize the internals were completely different. That’ll teach me not to KZfaq something first.

This Wiring Configuration you did is Wrong. 3 Wire has a Chassis Ground Jumper to the Center Neutral (Which someone removed for the 4 Wire), 4 wire you remove the Jumper (The configuration you had to Start with) 3 Wire Neutral, and Chassis Ground go together, 4 wire they are Separated.

How do you connect this on sigle phase ? In Ghana we normally use single phase and 3 phase,please

god man what about the green wire.

Thanks bro!

Hi, I am facing issues removing the middle(neutral) screw. Even drill bits are slipping off. Looks like many people have had this issue. Can you pls help ?

where do i screw the green cord

Not clear enough. It is not that easy. Why do you guys always skip the explanation on the ground cord? My ground comes from the 4 prong cable!!!

Perfect 👌

I don't have a green ground to the outside on my dryer 😩

Wrong! Need to ground the chasis! Although not to code, either move the green ground wire to the center neutral tap. Better yet, ground the chasis to the main panel ground bar, or the adjacent duplex providing 120 to the washer! Yes, the proper solution would be to upgrade the 3 prong dryer outlet to a 4 prong one with true yet separate conductors for the neutral and ground to the main.

I am in a mobile home and I changed the dryer from a 4 prong to a 3 prong, but the 3 prong does not have a green wire. But the dryer has a green screw. It says the law does not allow a neutral wire ground from it to the green screw of the body of the dryer in a mobile home. What do I do for a green wire? Or is it already grounded by the middle neutral wire?

Thank you so much me and my friend Forgot the Neutral.DUUUUHHHHH..

Appreciate it

I was wondering how that works because the motors are 120 volt but the coils are 220 it's crazy that it's using the ground to divide the voltage I didn't think that would work

Strange according to him he has 2 phases (phase 1and phase 2) he used this terminology at least 2x. But residential housing is single phase! Good trick! Use the terminology of hot 1 and hot 2! While he wired it in acceptable manner, his terminology is misleading at best and confusing for someone that does not know what is going on with electrical. Also it is not uncommon to find equipment without a grounding terminal. If possible however always go with a 4 wire system, it adds that grounding safety factor!

TOO BAD YOU DIDN'T SHOW ME HOW TO DO THE GREEN WIRE :(

Excellent video! Thanks!!