Door Removal Instructions - Kenmore 253.7034 Use & Care Manual

Door Removal Instructions

Getting through narrow spaces
If your refrigerator will not fit through an
entrance area, you can remove the doors.
Check first by measuring the entrance.
To prepare for removing the doors:
1 Make sure the electrical power cord
is unplugged from the wall outlet.
2 Open the freezer drawer and remove
the toe grille (see Installation section).
3 Remove any food from the door
shelves and close the doors.
To remove the top hinge covers:
1 Remove the two screws from each
cover over the top door hinges.
2 Lift inside edge of hinge cover and
tilt back.
Front
Cover Screw
Top Hinge
Cover
Hinge
Screws
Multi-wire
Cables
Leave
Hinge
With
Door
Front
Rear
Cover Screw
Cover
Screw
Ground
Top
Screw
Hinge
NOTE
DO NOT remove the ground screw from
hinge.
To remove the refrigerator doors
1 Trace lightly around the door's top
2 Disconnect the harness by grasping
Rear
Cover
Screw
Ground
Screw
Top
3 Detach the water tube from the
Hinge
Water
Line
NOTE
Top Hinge
Cover
Use care while pulling the water tube
Hinge
from the unit to be sure that you do not
Screws
kink the tube.
Leave
Hinge
With
Door
11
hinges with a pencil. This makes
reinstallation easier.
both sides of the connector firmly,
depress the latch, and pull apart.
Remove the two screws from the top
hinge. Lift the door off of the bottom
hinge and set it aside.
connector located behind the refrigerator
and pull the tube back out to the front
of the unit. The connector releases when
you press inward on the outer sleeve while
pushing the tube toward the connector
then while continuing to hold in the sleeve,
pull the tube away.
Press
Press
Water
Line
Approximately
5 feet