Stove Door Hinge Replacement

Grab your new hinges and make sure they are fully unpackaged.

Stove door hinge replacement.

Removed a c power and turned off gas. These old hinges can be discarded or examined as you see fit. Remove oven door assembly from the range remove screws securing oven door to hinges if so equipped. If you want a restoration call a company called o keefe merritt stove restorations.

Carefully open the hinge fully and insert a wooden dowel or screwdriver bit into opening marked a on the following diagram. Turn off electrical power to range. Whirlpool electric range wfe515s0es0 my repair advice. This will help to keep the hinge pieces from catching on their way out.

Remove the top and bottom screws securing hinge assembly to the front frame. If you notice that your stove knobs are very hot when the oven is on and that the oven keeps having to reheat your oven door may not be closing all the way. This model has thin metal covers over the hinge assemblies. This video shows the process to reset the oven door hinge should it become sprung in the removal process.

The name tells you o keefe merritt stove repair that s what they do. 6 install the new hinges. Carefully pull the hinges up and then pull them away from the door assembly. I knew for sure that the hinge with the large spring was damaged but elected to replace both hinges and receivers.

My repair advice. Replacing the parts was fairly easy and would have taken me less then an hour. Align the new hinges. Removed gas stove top burners 4 screws holding gas orifice assembly under stove top pulled top forward released front spring clips lifting top off and.

We are having it serviced tomorrow morning and the service call goes towards the bill.