How To: Whirlpool/KitchenAid/Maytag Door Gasket 2159075

May 24, 2013
How To Replace: Whirlpool/KitchenAid/Maytag Door Gasket 2159075 http://www.appliancepartspros.com/whi...

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Symptoms: Gasket is torn or has compressed over the years and is no longer sealing the refrigerator door

Tools: 5/16"" nut driver or socket, wire snips, putty knife

This Whirlpool/KitchenAid/Maytag made Refrigerator Door Gasket replaces the following older part numbers on Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Magic Chef, Admiral, Norge, Roper, Sears, and Kenmore Refrigerators: 2159071, 2159079, 2171177, 2177290, 2181889, 2196243, 2221302, 2309528, 443020, W10912123.

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] hi this is Matt with appliancepartspros.com today we'll be showing you how to repair your Appliance remember any time you work on an appliance make sure it's unplugged or the circuit breakers are off so there's no chance of electrocution in this video we're going to show you how to change out the whirpool refrigerator door gasket it's going to be a very easy repair it should only take a few minutes to show you how to do it if you already have one of these if not you can click on the link below
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or get it at appliancepartspros.com when you open up the package you're going to get the instruction sheet and the new door gasket the main reason to be changing out the refrigerator gasket if it's torn or it's compressed over the years and it's no longer sealing the door before you take this upper hinge off you want to make sure that you open the door and make sure you remove any items out of the door bends so when you take the hinge off there's no weight on the door first thing we have to do is
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remove the cover it's just snapped in place all you have to do is pull up on it and it'll come off then we have to remove these three bolts they're 5/16 you can use a socket or a nut driver take them out once you have the bolts out all you have to do is lift the hinge off make sure you don't lose your spacer and then we can lift the door off if you're doing a freezer door gasket this hinge cover may be held on with a screw screw and if you have the dispenser it's probably going to have a wiring harness in there that you have to
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disconnect and then at the bottom we have to look underneath the kick plate and there's a water line that runs up to the dispenser that you have to disconnect and pull up through the hinge all you have to do is snap it off ta it in by a clip on each end and the water line is right here it runs up through the hinge in the door so it has a compression fitting right here that you can just disconnect and pull the nut off now that you have the hinge off we're ready to lift the door off you can remove any
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tape you put on it to hold it in place all you have to do is pull off on the door and lift it off the hinge now that you have the door off the refrigerator we can set it on a table and get ready to change out the gasket the first thing you want want to do is take your gasket and lay it out in the sun or get it in some hot water to get all the creases and wrinkles out of it sometimes when they ship them they come with uh some creases in the in the gaskets and you need to get those straightened out before you put it on so
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before we cut the old gasket off and it can't be reused we're going to lay the gasket out above the old one just to make sure we have the right one and there's no problems so looks like it's about the right size if you do this and you find out you got the wrong one just need to give a skull while you have the gasket sitting outside or soaking in some hot water to get the Kinks out we can take the old start to take the old gasket out what you have to do is carefully peel it back you want to start in the middle of
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one of the longer sides of the door and you peel it back and then you can take your wire cutter and snip the gasket all the way into the door liner with the gasket pulled out we can take our wire Snips and snip the gasket until we get up close to the door liner once we get up to this point we can very carefully pull on it to get it to come out from underneath the door liner then once we have it all the way out we can cut it the rest of the way now that we have the door gasket cut we can pull it out you want to make sure
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that you pull straight out this way on it don't pull up otherwise you'll separate the inner and the outer door liners they're not made to come apart so you just want to pull straight out work it all the way around the door once you get the old gasket out you can take a putty knife and put some tape about 3/4 of an inch up and run it around in between the outer door and the inner door making sure that you push it in the whole way you want to get rid of any of the loose foam or any chunks of foam that might be caught in this groove
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that when you try to put the new gasket on it's going to bind you up and not allow you to push it in so don't go any deeper than 3/4 of an inch [Music] though here's the old door gasket next to the new door gasket if you already have one of these great if not you can get it at appliancepartspros.com the new gasket is a little bit different than the old one it has this hard plastic Edge that actually goes underneath the lip of the door liner whereas the old one was all rubber so when you're pushing the hard
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plastic part underneath the liner you want to use something that's not sharp and you can press up against this edge of the gasket right here to get this underneath the lip don't use anything sharp that's going to tear the new gasket though and you want to do the opposite Corners first so we're going to do this corner then the other opposite corner and then the other two corners so with the gasket laid out we're going to start at the bottom corner over here and this again this black piece is what's
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going to go up underneath the door liner right here so we're going to stick it underneath try to get it started once we have it in there then we can use the tool to push it up into place if you can get it with just your finger it may be a little bit looser but you may have to press on it with a tool so we got that bottom side in so we're going to finish up this corner and do this Edge a little bit up and then we're going to go up and do the opposite corner all right so we're in the upper opposite Cor
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Corner we're going to get the black piece underneath the door liner and get it started and then we can do a little bit going up this way your gasket seems a little bit short sometimes they stretch a little bit so you might see them and it looks like it's really short if it looks like it's a/ inch short or so all you have to do is stretch on it and it'll stretch out a little bit all right now we'll go down and do the other bottom corner and then come back up and do this one now that we have the corners in we
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can use our tool and go on the outer edge of the door and put the rest of the gasket [Music] in now that we have the gasket installed we can go reinstall the door all we have to do is set it down on the lower [Music] hinge close the door we can put the hinge back on they're five they're 516 inch bolts all you have to do is tighten them down with a socket or a nut driver once you have the bolts in we can put the hinge cover back on if you're doing a freezer door you just have to put the nut back on the water line and
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retighten it then once you get the water line back in all you have to do is snap the kick plate back in place now that we're done installing the part we can close the refrigerator door and the freezer door now that you finished repairing your refrigerator you can plug it back in make sure it starts to cool off and goes back to its normal temperature thanks for joining us for another successful repair brought to you by appliancepartspros.com check out our other repair videos on our site Facebook
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