How To Align Kenmore French Door Top

A refrigerator can only keep your food cool if its doors close properly.

How to align kenmore french door top.

Unfortunately we are having a freezer door issue. Moving the middle hinge will affect the upper door so you may have to adjust the top hinge afterward. Set the level on top of the fridge and check it periodically throughout adjusting to ensure you re hitting level. There was about 1 8 gap at the top of the door and the seal.

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. 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. How to tighten the refrigerator door on a kenmore elite. How to align a refrigerator door.

From phill swanson on june 26th 2014. Unfortunately most kenmore refrigerators do not allow you to adjust the door by itself. 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. To realign the lower door adjust the middle hinge.

How to level and align the doors on a french door refrigerator with adjustable rollers. Adjust only the top hinge to straighten an upper door. You have to adjust the bottom of the fridge to ensure the entire unit is level. After a quick inspection i noticed the door was not fully closing on the left.

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. A loose door is prone to swing open enabling room temperature air. Last night i opened the freezer and there was frost building up on the left side.