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Removing the Handles
and Doors
If it is necessary to move the refrigerator through narrow doorways,
follow these steps to remove the handles and/or refrigerator and freezer
doors.
To Remove Handles
Full-length Trim:
1. Using a putty knife, carefully slide the corner of the blade under the trim. Slide
blade down until you find the trim lock. Carefully maneuver the blade against
the trim lock from the side as shown.
Note: Pressing down on the trim lock
from above will not release it.
2. Carefully push the putty knife firmly against the trim lock and twist gently. The
trim lock will snap free from the door. (Each trim piece will have two trim locks.)
3. Grasp trim and pull up away from handle using a slight side-to-side motion.
4. Remove screws attaching handle to door.
5. Repeat these steps for each handle end. Keep screws and trim pieces.
6. To replace handles, line up handle with screw holes, insert screws and tighten.
Slide upper and lower trim pieces back on handle ends, and snap trim locks back
into holes on door front.
To Remove Doors
Before removing the doors, be sure the freezer control is turned to OFF. Remove
all food from the doors and unplug the refrigerator. Remove the toe grill.
Trace around the hinges with a soft lead pencil. This will make it easier to realign
the doors when they are replaced. Completely remove one door before starting
removal of the other.
Freezer Door:
1. Remove the toe grill. (See Outside in the "Care and Cleaning" section.)
2. Remove the wiring cover located over the lower hinge of the freezer door. The
cover is held in place by a single screw. (Figure 1)
3. To disconnect wiring harness plug (connector), position yourself to be able to
place your thumbs on the flat sides of each connector piece. Bend both parts
back and forth. Then with a firm grasp, pull the two pieces apart as shown.
4. To disconnect water line, hold water line elbow and push in on gray collar,
forcing elbow down, off from tube that runs into door.
5. Place a strip of tape along the door bottom, over the lower hinge and up the side
of the door. This will hold the hinge in place when the door is removed.
6. Remove the top bolt of the lower hinge. Loosen, but DO NOT REMOVE, the
bottom bolt of the lower hinge.
7. Remove top hinge cover by lifting back of cover and sliding forward. Remove
hinge screws from hinge bracket with a counter-clockwise motion. Note: Hinge
has minimal spring tension. Hold bracket when removing last screw. DO NOT
remove hinge bracket from door.
8. Carefully lift the door up and off the loosened lower hinge bolt. (Figure 2)
Refrigerator Door:
1. Remove top hinge cover by lifting back of cover and sliding forward. Remove
hinge screws from hinge bracket with a counter-clockwise motion. Note: Hinge
has minimal spring tension. Hold bracket when removing last screw. DO NOT
remove hinge bracket from door.
2. Remove the top bolt of the lower hinge. Loosen, but DO NOT REMOVE, the
bottom bolt of the lower hinge.
3. Carefully lift the door up and off the loosened lower hinge bolt.
Store the doors in a safe place until the refrigerator is moved to the desired location.
Keep all hardware for reinstallation.
To Reinstall Doors
To reinstall the doors, reverse the instructions used to remove the doors. Note: To
reinstall water line, push elbow up, onto door tube, until collar touches tube ink
mark as shown left.
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Removing handles and trim
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Figure 1
WATER LINE NUT
Figure 2