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My side by side is 19 years old. It suddenly wasn't cooling in the refrigerator, and even after I turned it to the coldest setting it didn't help. Now the freezer seems to be thawing out. Should I bother with trying to have it repaired or is it just too old? It has never had any problems before.
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Hi.
It's all depends on how expensive repair could be.
If you look inside the freezer, do you see any snow build on the back panel? If you do - then this is the defrost system failure. Relatively inexpensive.
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The compressor is running and there is a snow film on the back wall of the freezer. Those are all of the numbers on the label on the back. Is there somewhere else to look for the model number?
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The compressor is running and there is snow on the back wall of the freezer. I can't find any additional model numbers on the label in the back.
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HI.
Pull off the bottom grill and in the right corner you will see the tag with model number.
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They are probably all very close to each other. For the following I used GS22X8DA
Remove the cover from inside of the freezer so you can inspect the evaporator coils. If they are heavily iced/frosted over to the point that the fan cannot pull air through them, then you have a defrost problem. Also check that the evaporator/freezer fan is running.
Manually force a defrost cycle by turning the defrost timer cam (Item 20 in Section 8) till the fans and compressor turn off. There is usually a hole in the cover to let you do this without taking anything apart.Usually they are behind the kick plate but could be at the back. Now check the defrost heater to see if it is on. Be careful you do not want to burn your fingers. If the heater is on then the timer needs replacing, re: it is probably stalling during it's rotation so is never getting into a defrost cycle.
If not on. Unplug the unit. Remove the wire for one side of the heating element (Item 36 in Section 8) from the wiring and measure it for continuity, usually around 20 ohms or so.
If the heater is OK Remove one wire to the defrost thermostat (Item 29 in Section 8) and measure it, should be 0 ohms when frozen. Note that it opens just above freezing so must be frozen to check it. Also inspect it, if it is bulged at all replace it even if it measures OK.
If both the above are OK then odds are the defrost timer contacts are toast. Best way to test this is a live test to see if you have 120 volts across the heater/defrost thermostat combo. |
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