Installation Guide

9
Removing the Doors
NOTE
Use care while pulling the water tube from the unit to
be sure that you do not kink the tube.
To remove the refrigerator doors:
1. Trace lightly around the door’s top hinges with a pencil.
This makes reinstallation easier.
Getting through narrow spaces
If your refrigerator will not fi t through an entrance area,
before installing the door handles, you can remove the
doors. Check fi rst 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.
NOTE
DO NOT remove the ground screw from hinge.
Rear
Cover
Screw
Ground
Screw
Top
Hinge
Top Hinge
Cover
Hinge
Screws
Multi-wire
Cables
Leave
Hinge
With
Door
Front
Cover Screw
Water
Line
Rear
Cover
Screw
Top
Hinge
Ground
Screw
Front
Cover Screw
Top Hinge
Cover
Hinge
Screws
Leave
Hinge
With
Door
2. Disconnect the harness by grasping both sides of the
connector fi rmly, 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.
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.
Press
Press
Approximately
5 feet
Water
Line
NOTE
You will be pulling approximately fi ve feet of water
tube from the back of the refrigerator.