Door Removal - Kenmore 253.7034 series Use & Care Manual

Door Removal Instructions
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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 tap 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.
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To remove the refrigerator doors:
1. Trace lightly around the door's top
hinges with a pencil This makes
reinstallation easier.
2. Disconnect the harness by grasping
both sides of the connector firml%
depress the latch, and puJJ apart.
Remove the two screws from the top
hinge. Lift the door off of the boffom
hinge and set it aside.
3. Detach the water tube from the
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.
NOTE
Use care while pulling the water tube
from the unit to be sure you do not kink it.
NOTE
DO NOT remove the ground screw
from hinge.
12
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feet