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#1 Posted : Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:49:09 AM(UTC)
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Can you tell me how to unlock clamp on current boot and install new washer boot?
Thank you,
Caragh O'Brien
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Originally Posted by: caraghob Go to Quoted Post
Can you tell me how to unlock clamp on current boot and install new washer boot?
Thank you,
Caragh O'Brien


Caragh,

It's a pretty involved procedure, not very difficult, could be frustrating at times, but here are excerpts from the Service Manual, to help you through,

Good Luck,
:) :) :)


REMOVING THE DOOR SWITCH ASSEMBLY

AND THE BELLOWS


1. Unplug washer or disconnect power.
2. Turn off the water supply to the washer.
3. Remove the top cover and the console
4. Remove the lower front access panel
5. Open the washer door

6. Using a small screwdriver or a pair of
long-nosed pliers, pull the tension spring
on the retaining wire out from around
the front of the bellows, and remove the
wire.

7. To remove the door switch assembly:

a) Pull the bellows off the lip of the front
panel beside the door switch assembly
just enough to access the switch
assembly.
b) Remove the two T-20 Torx screws

from the door switch assembly
c) Pull the door switch assembly out and
turn it over so that you can access the
connectors.
d) Unlock the tabs and disconnect the
three wire connectors from the door
switch terminals, then remove the assembly.


8. To remove the bellows:

a) Remove the two T-20 Torx screws
from the door switch assembly .
b) Remove the front panel from the
washer
c) Turn the bellows retaining clamp screw
counterclockwise until the clamp is
loose enough to remove it from around
the bellows

NOTE: It may be necessary to completely
remove the screw from one

end of the clamp.
d) Remove the bellows retaining clamp
from around the bellows.

e) Pull the bellows off the front of the
tub.

Remove Bellows

REASSEMBLY NOTE: When you reinstall the
bellows, be sure to position the “weep holes”

at the bottom, as shown below.

REMOVING THE CONSOLE AND

THE TOUCHPAD/LED ASSEMBLY

1. Unplug washer or disconnect power.
2. Turn off the water supply to the washer.
3. Remove the three T-20 hex-head Torx
screws from the top cover of the washer.
4. Pull back on the cover and release the
tabs in the console from the slots in the

cover, then lift the cover off the unit.
5. To remove the console:

a) Pull out and disconnect cable connector
UI8 from the central control unit.
b) Remove the cable wires from the two

central control unit clips.
c) Pull the detergent dispenser drawer
out as far as it will go, then press down
on the release tab, and remove the

drawer from the unit.
d) Remove the two screws at the recessed

hole and bottom of the console.
e) Lift the top edge of the console and
unhook it from the holder clips.

f) Press the locking tab on the right rear
side of the console inward, and remove

the console

10. Remove the three hex-head screws from
the lower front access panel, then lower

the panel, and remove it.
11. Open the washer door.
12. Using a small screwdriver or a pair of
long-nosed pliers, pull the tension spring
on the retaining wire out from around
the front of the bellows, and remove the
wire.
13. Pull the bellows off the lip of the front
panel, and push the bellows inside the
front panel.
14. Remove the two T-20 Torx screws from

the door switch assembly
15. Close the washer door.
16. Remove the four hex-head screws from
the top and bottom of the front panel and
remove the panel from the unit.

17. Loosen the clamp from the main water
feed tube and remove the tube from the
detergent dispenser.

18. Pull back and unhook the tab on the left
side of the detergent dispenser from the
cabinet side panel slot, then lift the dispenser

out of the washer

REASSEMBLY NOTE: When you reconnect
the water feed tube, align the arrow on the tube

with the line on the detergent dispenser
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