Installing Your Refrigerator

How to Remove the Doors and Hinges

Some installations require door removal to get refligerator to final location

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_ WARNING

To avoid severe personal injury or death, observe the following:

Disconnect power to refrigerator before removing doom Connect power only after replacing doors

Green ground wire must be attached to top hinge while performing door removal and replacement

Tape decorative panels (some models) securely into place before removing door handles

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A_ CAUTION

To avoid property damage, observe the following:

Protect soft vinyl or other flooring with cardboard, rugs, or other protective material, pdor to moving refrigerator

To avoid damage or breakage to adjusting bolt, do not use power tools to correct leveling.,

DO NOT adjust unit to be any shorter than 68 ½" inches tall (minus hinge and cap) Doing so may damage underside components

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Detach main wire connector

harness.

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emove

toe

grille and

Use a fiat blade screwdriver

 

 

bottom

hinge

covers.

or fingernail to press junction

 

,

Open both doors I80% or as

point between two connectors

 

to release

 

 

wide as possible, to remove,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detach

red

wire harness.

 

 

 

Press

tab on underside of

Unscrew

union

nut

connector

to release,

to detach

water

tube.

 

 

 

(dispensing models onl._)

 

 

 

 

Remove

top

hinges

along

 

 

 

 

 

with

doors.

 

 

 

Remove top hinge cover by

 

 

 

 

 

 

removing Phillips

screw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remove

bottom hinges with a

 

 

 

s/,, hex

3Is"

hex

head

driver.

 

 

Close

doors, Unscrew

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head screws from top hinges,

How to

Replace

the

Doors

DO NOT remove either green ground

 

 

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wire or wire connecting center screw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remove the Doors and Hinges in reverse order

 

 

 

 

I • To replace

doom,

follow the steps

in How to

How to

Install

and

Remove

Handles

 

 

 

 

 

Installing

Front-Mounted

Handles

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If installing handles for the fi_st time, the flesh food handles can be located within the flesh food section. The handle trim wilt be located in the literature pack

screws £rom bottom o£

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refrigerator and freezer

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and bottom sets door dips, I _ t[

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holes on bottom handles --I_[_

match with door screw holes.

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