Bosch HINGEREVERSAL User Manual

DOOR HINGE

Figure 2

REVERSAL KIT
INSTRUCTIONS

4) Remove the hinge coverplate as

shown in Figure 2.

8) Set the two screws aside.

9) Remove the striker coverplate/latch

assembly from the dryer door.

10) Remove the latch from the striker

coverplate as shown in Figure 5.

Your Bosch clothes dryer leaves our
factory with its door hinged on the right
side. With the Door Hinge Reversal kit
you can place the hinge on the left side if
doing so will make using your clothes
dryer more convenient.

1. Materials Needed

• T20 Torx screwdsriver

• Small flat-head screwdriver

2. Materials Supplied

• Hinge (left side version)

• Spacer Nuts (2)

• Striker Coverplate (right side version)

• Hinge Coverplate (left side version)

• Latch Retainer

• Bottom Hinge Hole Cover (1)

•Top Hinge Hole Cover

• Instructions

3. Procedure

NOTE: Throughout these instructions,
the phrases “right side” and “left side”
refer to the dryer and dryer door as seen
when you are facing the front of the dryer
with the dryer door shut.

A. Remove and Prepare the Dryer
Door

1) Open the dryer door as far as it will

open.

2) Remove the four screws that secure

the hinge coverplate as shown in Figure

1.

Figure 5

NOTE: The door weighs about 8 lbs.

5) Grasp the dryer door, lift it slightly,
and remove it from its hinge as shown in
Figure 3.

Figure 3

11) Take the supplied right-side version
striker coverplate and insert the latch into
it as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6

Figure 1

3) Set the four screws aside.

6) Set the dryer door on a work surface.

7) Remove the two screws that secure
the striker coverplate to the dryer door’s
left side as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

1

12) Place the right-side version striker
coverplate/latch assembly on the dryer
door’s right side as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7

13) Retrieve the two striker coverplate
screws and use them to secure the right­side version striker coverplate/latch
assembly to the dryer door’s right side as
shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8

3) Lift the hinge and remove it from the

dryer’s right side as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10

4) Set the hinge aside.

5) Use a small flat head screwdriver to

pry and remove the two spacer nuts from
the dryer’s right side as shown in Figure

11.

7) Use a small flat head screwdriver to
pry the bottom hinge hole cover from the
dryer’s left side. Lift the bottom hinge hole
cover slightly, and remove it as shown in
Figure 12.

Figure 12

B. Prepare the Dryer

1) Remove the two screws that secure
the hinge to the dryer’s right side as
shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9

Figure 1 1

7) Set the bottom hinge hole cover

aside.

2) Set the two screws aside.

2

6) Set the spacer nuts aside.