Getting Ready to Install the New Drain Assembly of your Bathroom Faucet

Once you have the drain unscrewed from the flange on your bathroom faucet drain, you can continue unscrewing the J-Pipe.  This is probably a good time to put the water bucket under the J-Pipe as there is a little water in there which might spill.  Next Loosen up the white plastic nut around the J-Pipe in order you can remove the flange.  These are fairly easy to loosen as they have nice grips to grab onto.  If you can’t get it lose, you can always use your old friend the Vice-Grip. 

Most of the time when your installing a bathroom faucet, the flange is down pretty far into the J-Pipe so you might have to loosen up some of the other plastic nuts further down the line to turn the J-Pipe down and sideways to remove the flange. This is shown in the picture above.  If you can do what is shown in the picture, you might be able to get the flange pipe out without dumping the water from the J-Unit Pipe.

Also, when removing the flange from the J-Unit, make sure you retain the plastic washer just under the giant plastic nut. This part goes with the J-Pipe and remember which way it is facing on the flange as you will need to put this on your new flange. 

Alright, you are finally finished with the worst part of installing your bathroom faucet.  Clean up the drain whole around the sink, grab you new flange from your new faucet set and we will start on the actual install of the drain assembly of your bathroom faucet.

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