atwood HE-0601, HE-0801 Helium RV REFRIGERATOR - Manual (Page 5)

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REVERSING THE DOOR SWINGS (OPTIONAL)
This refrigerator has been designed to allow for the door
swings to be reversed using the following procedure.
1. Remove the storage bins from the doors
2. Remove the top hinge pin for the freezer door and lift
the door off of its lower hinge. Remove the top hinge pin
for the cabinet door and lift the door off of its lower
hinge.
3. After the doors have been removed, remove the
hinges keeping track of where each hinge and each
hinge pin was originally installed (e.g. the top right
corner hinge, the top middle hinge, top hinge pin, etc.)
4. Remove the door handle assemblies from the doors
keeping track of where each door hinge was originally
installed (e.g. freezer door handle, fresh food door
handle).
5. On the refrigerator cabinet, remove the 3 screws
holding the display panel housing onto the center divider
section of the refrigerator.
6. Hold the display housing in your hand while
disconnecting the wiring harness to the display board
assembly and set the display housing aside.
7. Remove and save all the plastic screw hole caps on
the center divider and in the hinge mounting holes on the
other side of the cabinet.
8. Remove and remount the display board bracket and
the latch plate as shown in Fig 6.
9. Pick up the display housing and observe the back of
the display board assembly.
10. The display board assembly is held into the black
display board housing by two tabs on either end of the
display board assembly. Gently spread those tabs apart
to allow the display board assembly to be pulled out the
front of the display board housing.
11. Rotate the display board assembly 180 degrees and
reinsert back into the display board housing making sure
to snap the assembly back into the two tabs of the
housing.
12. Reconnect the wiring harness to the display board
assembly.
13. Rotate the display housing so the display is readable
and remount the display board housing using the display
board bracket and the three mounting screws.
14. Remove the hinge which was the top hinge for the
freezer door and reinstall it on the other side of the
cabinet as the new freezer bottom hinge.
15. Remove the lower hinge pin from the old freezer bottom hinge
and reinstall it on the new freezer bottom hinge.
16. Remove the old freezer bottom hinge and reinstall it on the
other side as the new freezer top hinge.
17. Remove the hinge which was top hinge for the cabinet door
and reinstall it on the other side of the cabinet as the new cabinet
bottom hinge.
18. Remove the lower hinge pin from the old cabinet bottom hinge
and reinstall it on the new cabinet bottom hinge.
19. Remove the old cabinet bottom hinge and reinstall it on the
other side as the new cabinet top hinge.
20. Reinstall all of the plastic screw hole caps in the mounting
holes on the other side of the cabinet.
21. Turn the cabinet door upside down and mount the old freezer
door handle assembly on the cabinet door’s new top side.
22. Turn the freezer door upside down and mount the old cabinet
door handle assembly on the freezer door’s new top side.
23. Place the hinge side of the cabinet door onto the hinge pin
which is pointing up from the bottom cabinet hinge. Push the top
side of the cabinet door so that the hinge side of the top of the
door is directly below the top cabinet hinge and insert the hinge
pin to hold the door in place.
24. Place the hinge side of the freezer door up onto the hinge pin
which is pointing down from the top freezer hinge. Push the
bottom side of the freezer door so that the hinge side of the
bottom of the door is directly above the bottom freezer hinge and
screw in the hinge pin to hold the door in place
25. Reinstall storage bins in doors as desired.
LATCH PLATE HOUSING BRACKET
RIGHT HINGED DOORS
HOUSING BRACKET LATCHPLATE
LEFT HINGED DOORS
FIG 6