1. Open the front doors
  2. Pull out the paper trays
  3. Pull out the front drawer
  4. Open the controller box (Opening the Controller Box)
  5. Remove the right cover (Right Cover)
  6. Remove the toner bottle.

  7. Remove handle [A] and cover [B] (x5).

    • There are two paper jam LEDs on the front of the VTU. Work carefully to avoid knocking these LEDs off their posts or cutting or scratching fingers on their sharp edges. To avoid problems during removal of the VTU, just pull them off their posts temporarily.

  8. At the front of the VTU, pull the two paper jam LEDs off their posts. You do not need to disconnect them.
  9. When you set them again, be sure the LED connector is on the same side as the black triangles [A] and [B].
  10. Remove a bracket (x2).
  11. Remove a screw (x1).
  12. Disconnect the toner bottle rail:
    [A] Front (x1)
    [B] Rear (x2,x1). When you remove the blue screw, pull out the temperature sensor. You do not need to disconnect the sensor.
  13. From the front, slide the toner bottle rail out of the machine.
  14. Lower the IOB [A] (x7, x3,x4).
  15. With the IOB lowered, you can see the bracket [B] that must be removed in the next step.
  16. Disconnect:
    [A] Left side of the bracket (x2)
    [B] Right side of the bracket (x2)
  17. As you remove the bracket [A], disconnect the belt [B].
  18. At the corner of the machine, below the lowered IOB, disconnect the VTU motor harnesses at [A] and [B] (x5, x2).
  19. The VTU unit is mounted on two pins and below the lowered IOB.

  20. Make sure that the front drawer is pulled out completely.

    • The VTU cannot be removed with the front drawer inside the machine.

  21. On the right side of the machine [A], lift the VTU [A] off its hooks.
  22. At the front [B], pull the VTU out of the machine, and then lay it on a flat surface.
  23. Set the VTU on a flat stable surface.