Nikon D7000 Mirror Box & Viewfinder Replacement

Remove the following 5 screws securing the bottom cover to the camera body:

Four 6 mm J000 screws.

One 8 mm J000 screw (under lens mount).

Remove three 6 mm J000 screws from under the battery cover.

Gently pull the bottom cover off of the camera body.

Remove the following screws from the port area:

Two 3.5 mm J000 screws.

One 6 mm J000 screw (right above ports).

Peel the rear rubber piece off with tweezers.

Remove one 4.25 mm J000 screw from behind the rear rubber piece.

Pull the eyepiece cover up to remove it.

Remove two 6 mm J000 screws from behind the eyepiece cover.

Open the SD card cover by pushing slightly down with your thumb and sliding up.

Remove four 6 mm J000 screws that secure the SD card cover.

Gently pull the SD card cover off.

Remove the following screws that secure the back case:

One 6 mm J000 screw.

One 3 mm J000 screw.

Carefully lift the back case off.

Disconnect the following two ribbon cables from the motherboard.

Remove the following screws securing the left motherboard shield:

One 2 mm J000 screw (on the bottom).

One 3.5 mm J000 screw (on the back).

Gently pry and lift the left motherboard shield off.

Remove one 3.5 mm J000 screw securing the right motherboard shield.

Gently lift the right motherboard shield off with the tip of a spudger.

Disconnect remaining ribbon cables.

Disconnect remaining ribbon cables.

Carefully disconnect the red connector with tweezers.

Remove four 3.5 mm J000 screws securing the motherboard.

Gently pull the port side cover away from the motherboard.

Lift the motherboard off.

Remove four 6 mm J000 screws securing the tripod plate.

Carefully lift the tripod plate from the backside of the camera and slide out the grounding clip from under the lens mount.

Disconnect black and white speaker cable.

Remove three 6 mm J000 screws securing the image sensor.

Carefully lift the image sensor plate out of the camera.

Manually pop up flash by inserting a screw driver to the left of the viewfinder and pressing on the metal lever.

Remove two 5 mm J000 screws from under the flash.

Remove two 3 mm J000 screws securing the front cover.

Remove the front cover.

Carefully remove the port cover.

Deroute the microphone cable.

Remove one 4 mm J000 screw from the front.

Remove one 8.5 mm J000 screw from the battery compartment.

Remove the grip carefully.

Remove one 4 mm J000 screw securing the top case (under right strap hook).

Remove one 4 mm J000 screw securing the top case (under left strap hook).

Remove the sticker covering the diopter adjust screw.

Remove one 8.0 mm J000 screw.

Remove the Diopeter Adjust.

Remove the top case.

Remove the Black, Yellow, Green cable from the top case board.

Remove two 6.5 mm J000 screws securing the viewfinder.

Remove the viewfinder cover.

Remove one 3 mm J000 screw from the bottom left side of the camera.

Remove two 6 mm J000 screws from the left of the shutter.

Remove two 6.5 mm J000 screws from beneath the lens mount.

Remove two screws from just below and to the sides of the viewfinder.

Remove one 5 mm J000 screw from the top right of the camera.

Carefully peel back ribbon cable on the bottom left of camera.

Remove the left front ribbon cable from top right of circuit board.

Remove all three wire connectors.

Separate the shutter assembly from the camera body.

Pull out ribbon cable from circuit asembly near front left of device.

Desolder red & black power leads.

Disconnect ribbon cable at the top right of camera.

Disconnect ribbon cable at top right of camera.

Disconnected ribbon cable at rear right of viewfinder.

Remove the two 5.5mm J000 screws

Remove the 5.5 mm J000 screw.

Remove the viewfinder from the mirror box assembly.