Door Latch Assembly

I started by removing the grill above the door using a #2 philips head (cross) screwdriver to remove two(2) screws. Open the door all the way and lift it from the bottom until the hinge pins clear the hinge. This gets a little tricky especially if the hinge side of the door is close to a wall. Once the door is removed place it on a fla ... Read more t surface with the inside facing up. Using a putty knife slowly and carefully pry up the outer perimeter shield. There are a few (no sure how many) small clips that hold this shield in place. Once the shield is remove the latch pawl assembly is exposed. Slowly unhook the single spring from its hook and the latch assembly comes free. Make sure you pay attention to the positioning of the existing latch pawl so the replacement piece is installed in the same orientation. It is best to install the soring first and then hook in the latch pawl assembly. Pop back into position the shield assembly. Reverse the installation of the door from the removal process. Re-install the grill with the two(2) screws and close the door.

disassemble door remove latch. install new latch.

remove door lift up and tilt door then use scraper to pry off plastic cover remove broken door latch install new door latch reinstall door done.

Replaced both sides of door latching mechanism; required disconnecting, removal, and re-connecting of control and display board. Everything went fine. Reset the timer and lightly tested the controls immediately after completion. All seemed ok. After a half-hour or so most controls had stopped working, and could no longer get to the ... Read more sequence to reset the timer. After an hour or so, all the controls had stopped working, and the display completely blank. No response to any of the control buttons. I have no idea what caused it to fail.

remove outer cover carefully with screwdriver to pop out of snaps pry latch assembly out of slots, spring can stay pry new latches in mounting holes put cover back snaps in place

very self explanatory very easy to talk about just pop out the back of door and from there no college degree needed