Ralph H Vancouver , WA June 24, 2014 Appliance: General Electric Refrigerator TFX22ZPBEAA Frosting up and not cooling properly Replaced the defrost heater and thermostat. Removed the back panel in the freezer. Defrosted coils with a hair blow dryer. Removed defective unit and installed new replacement. Refer is back to normal operation. Took more time to defrost than to remove and install heating unit. Read More... 12 People found this story helpful Do-It-Yourself Rating: Repair Time Estimate: 30-60 minutes Tools: Nut Drivers, Screwdrivers
Octavio E Prescott Valley , AZ March 31, 2014 Coil freez up Replace defrost heater Read More... 3 People found this story helpful Do-It-Yourself Rating: Repair Time Estimate: 15-30 minutes Tools: Nut Drivers
Lamar P Norman Park , GA April 29, 2016 Refrigerator/freezer was not defrosting Ordered defrost heater assembly on Monday and received it Tuesday AM. I received it much quicker than expected. So quick I had no time to track it. Read More... 1 People found this story helpful Do-It-Yourself Rating: Repair Time Estimate: 15-30 minutes Tools: Nut Drivers, Screwdrivers
John B Greenleaf , WI June 30, 2014 Automatic defrost wouldn't work causing ice build up and loss of cooling Went through testing procedures described & found likely cause to be the defroster heating element. Easily found replacement part, ordered & had it within two days. Very clear instructions were included longest part of repair proved to be waiting for the ice build up to melt. Read More... 1 People found this story helpful Do-It-Yourself Rating: Repair Time Estimate: 15-30 minutes Tools: Screwdrivers
William M Prospect , PA May 10, 2015 My refrigerator was running constantly First I cleaned the condenser coils which were filthy. waited 24 hours to see if it had helped. did not help, Then I check the temps. Freezer was at 0 to 10 below refrigerator was at 40 degrees. After removing some frozen food. I noticed the back panel was iced over, so I took all the frozen food out and started the defrosting of the evap coil which was a ice block. After the evap coils were thawed out. I noticed the Defrost heater was black and the pink wire insulation was melted off and bare wires were seen about an 1inch above the heater. Took the heater and the assembly out and did a continuity test which showed the heater and thermostat were bad. So I looked up the part for the model of my refrigerator and ordered it on appliancepartspros.com. I odered it late sunday night and got the parts Tuesday. I installed the part which was packaged well in the box and info on installing it, I installed it in in minutes and checked all the wires were in place neatly. after a few days the refigerator finally got up to temp. it helps if you put frozen food back into the freezer to help with the temps. The refrigerator seems to me that it is running normal. I don;t miss the constant running. Thanks for sendeing me quality parts. I will deal with appliancepartspros again in the future. William McDowell Jr. Read More... Do-It-Yourself Rating: Repair Time Estimate: Less than 15 minutes Tools: Nut Drivers, Screwdrivers