How To Align Kenmore French Door Top

To realign the lower door adjust the middle hinge.

How to align kenmore french door top.

How to tighten the refrigerator door on a kenmore elite. From phill swanson on june 26th 2014. Unfortunately we are having a freezer door issue. A loose door is prone to swing open enabling room temperature air.

Side by side and french door refrigerators require proper door alignment to ensure a proper seal and to ensure the refrigerator maintains its desired look. How to align a refrigerator door. You have to adjust the bottom of the fridge to ensure the entire unit is level. Last night i opened the freezer and there was frost building up on the left side.

Then align the door with the top of the refrigerator. See where you re at from front to back and side to side and choose which side is best level with the back it may be that you only have to adjust the front left or front right foot. Set the level on top of the fridge and check it periodically throughout adjusting to ensure you re hitting level. Adjust only the top hinge to straighten an upper door.

Using a 1 4 or 4 mm wrench turn the door adjusting screw to the right to raise the door or to the left to lower it. A refrigerator can only keep your food cool if its doors close properly. Unfortunately most kenmore refrigerators do not allow you to adjust the door by itself. A nylon plug embedded in the threads of the pin prevents the pin from turning unless a wrench is used after one or two turns of the wrench open and close the refrigerator door and check the alignment at the top of the doors.

If the door on your kenmore refrigerator is not properly aligned it may not close properly causing serious problems with cooling efficiency and effectiveness. How to level and align the doors on a french door refrigerator with adjustable rollers. Moving the middle hinge will affect the upper door so you may have to adjust the top hinge afterward.