Repair Oven Door Hinges

Household appliances can be tremendously frustrating particularly when trying to reinstall an oven door.

Repair oven door hinges.

When you find the tabs if there are any use your flat screwdriver to pry them open. To begin the replacement of your hinges the door needs to be removed and isolated first. How to replace hinges in order to begin replacing your hinges you ll need to remove the door. The most common cause of oven door hinge failures is simply that one of two components will fail either the oven door hinge itself or the oven door hinge receiver has failed.

This how to tutorial will demonstrate how to remove. You may find the locking tabs at the base of the hinges or up along the side of the oven door pocket. Close the door back up until it reaches the broil stop position which is only about 1 4 of the way open. Position the door in the broil position and work the oven door hinges back into the receivers on the front of the range frame.

Replace the hinges with identical new ones and hook them back into the hinge holes in the. Close the oven door. Most ovens have hinge locking tabs but some do not. There will be tabs on each side of the door which you need to unscrew first.

For safety wear a pair of gloves. Press them as far open as the tabs will go to clear the track. This video shows the process to reset the oven door hinge should it become sprung in the removal process. Refer to the owner s manual for directions for reattaching the oven door.

If the door doesn t pull up look inside the oven for screws holding the hinges in place and unscrew them. Then start closing the door back up until it reaches the broil position which is about of the maximum opening position. 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.