Do-It-Yourself Story

Replaced it with a new one. If you are doing this you may want to make sure you can store the items from the freezer for at least a few hours. I had planned for it to take a while to defrost the freezer and replace the gasket, but I had not expected the insulation in the door panel to be saturated with moisture with had frozen solid. If I had not had some scraps of fiberglass insulation from a previous project, I would have needed to defrost those strips and dry them completely which may have taken hours.