How To Remove Refrigerator Doors Side By Side
Place a sturdy stepladder on the left side near the refrigerator and climb the ladder to access the upper freezer door hinge.
How to remove refrigerator doors side by side. There are times when it may be necessary to remove the refrigerator door. Use a small thin screwdriver at the side edge of the cap. Plastic or painted colored handles. Open end wrench screwdriver nutdriver.
Slowly open the door with both hands and lift the door off from the bottom hinge. Push the tabs on both the electrical connectors as shown to disconnect them. The video features a french door refrigerator. It has water and ice.
Use a phillips head screwdriver to remove the screw securing the hinge. Be careful not to drop or scratch the freezer door. Some repairs require removing the door such as replacing the hinge cam or the bottom. How do i remove the freezer door with the water line going into the door read more.
How to remove a refrigerator door. Lift the freezer door upward to remove it from the unit. Reattach the hinge and cover hinge to the opposite side. This video demonstrates the proper and safe way to remove a refrigerator freezer door in order to access parts that may need to be tested and or replaced.
The next step is to remove the front grille from the bottom of the appliance which you can usually do by pulling. If you re undertaking a ge refrigerator door removal you can do this with the doors closed but for models from some manufacturers such as whirlpool the doors have to be open and askew 90 degrees to the refrigerator body. This video shows you how. However the handle installation is similar to sxs handles.
Handles with cap over each end of handle carefully pop off cap. Now to remove the right side of the door remove the phillips head screw and lift the second hinge cover off. I am needing to take the doors off of a 2002 kenmore side by side refrigerator to move it through a door.