How to Install a Four Wire Dryer Plug
- 1). Locate the electrical access panel on the back of your dryer. It can be identified as a small square or rectangle metal plate held to the dryer with two or more screws.
- 2). Remove the screws from the access panel and remove the access plane for the back of the dryer, exposing the terminal block. The terminal block consists of black plastic with three screws attached to the face of it. Remove the screws from the terminal block and sit aside.
- 3). Attach the cord to the dryer by threading it through the strain relief connector next to the electrical access panel. The strain relief screws, once tightened, hold the dryer cord where it cannot be accidentally pulled loose from the terminal block.
- 4). Install the four wire dryer plug. The ends of the four wire dryer plug are color coded with ring terminals attached and they consist of a white (neutral), black (hot), red (hot), and green (ground). Connect the white wire to the middle terminal and replace the screw to hold the wire into place. Connect the red wire to either the terminal to the left or the right of the white wire and connect the black wire to the remaining terminal, tightening the screws to hold the wires to the terminal block. Locate the green ground wire that connects from the dryer to a ground screw physically attached to the body of the dryer. Loosen this screw and attach the green wire from the dryer plug to it, leaving the original green wire connected to it as well.
