Friday, October 14, 2011

Removing Kenmore 90 series, model 110 clothes dryer mechanical compartment panel (lower panel located underneath dryer door)

How to gain entry inside of your Kenmore Clothes dryer in order to maintain it. 

You do not need to remove the entire clothes dryer cabinet or completely take your clothes dryer apart for most repairs. 

You can simply remove the mechanical compartment panel of the cabinet from your clothes dryer and gain entry to its inner working components.  This panel of the cabinet is located directly under your dryer's door. Dependent on the repair needed you may not need to remove your clothes dryers entire cabinet.  

How to remove the lower cabinet door (panel) from a Kenmore 90 series, Model 110 clothes dryer.

Using a stiff putty knife insert it approximately 3.5" - 4" from the ends of the bottom cover depressing the locking snaps downwards.  You want to shine a light in the crack and ensure the putty knife blade is above the black snapping apparatus, depress it down and open that end of the cover.  Do the same thing for the other end.  There are only two locking tabs that hold this cabinet's panel in place, one is located on each end 3.5"-4" from the end of the panel.


Just make sure your putty knife has a stiff blade or else it will not provide the rigidity needed to dislodge and depress these locking means downwards. Once again, the knife blade needs to slide in, above these locking mechanisms.  You can easily see this with a flashlight.


There are only two locking mechanisms on this Kenmore heavy duty capacity 90 series clothes dryer bottom cover.  One on each end about 3.5" - 4" from the end of the panel.


Close up view of the locking clips...please excuse the dust.  Just lift the cover right off of the bottom holders.

To replace: slide the panel back onto the lower tabs as seen in the photo and snap the upper portion into position. You do not need any tools to reinstall this cabinet panel cover.

9 comments:

  1. Thanks very helpful info thanks!!

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  2. In 2020, this post is still handy! Thanks.

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    1. Awesome...thanks for leaving me feedback. I wonder sometimes if this old blog is worth keeping up. Blogs have become obsolete in this world where very few read any longer.

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  3. Just used your tips and finally got the darn thing open. My dryer is a Maytag 1.5 years old so definitely still relevant

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    1. Dang, who knew. Glad the blog is still helping people. Thank you for the feedback.

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  4. And still helping people in 2022! I dropped a skinny flashlight down the dryer vent of our old machine today, and was determined to fix it before my husband got home haha! I had almost succeeded, but he was early. I didn't need help though and he just shook his head when I hollered, "Just keep walking don't look in here" from behind all my tools in the laundry room Thank you!

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    1. That's funny!!! Thank you for sharing the laugh. I'm glad the blog is still useful and appreciate the feedback.

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  5. This info is still very helpful and relevant. This is the clearest description and photos I could find after struggling unsuccessfully to open that darned bottom panel. The key info of using a thin but rigid blade and pushing DOWN from the top of the upper clips to release the panel is very appreciated. Thank you!

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    1. Glad it's still helpful. Thank you for sharing your feedback. Much appreciated.

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