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Maytag side by side is not defrosting. Fridge gets warm. I have manually defrosted it twice now and it works for a week or so. Some say adaptive defrost board and some say thermostat. I don't know where the board is. How do I check to see which one. How do I manually put it into defrost mode?
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You have to have a simple Ohmmeter to perform the troubleshooting. Let us know when you ready.
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If you have no meter, I would pull the back freezer panel and look at the defrost thermostat clipped to the top of the evaporator. If the top of it looks bulged, replace it AP4080326. If it looks ok, replace it and the adaptive defrost board behind the control panel. AP4010220
It is not easy to manually force defrost on this fridg, but if you replace both items mentioned, you will most probably fix the no defrost problem.
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I am trying to replace those parts. This is probably a stupid question but how do I get the wire out of the white clip to put the new one in so I can connect it to the panel?
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If you are talking about the adaptive defrost board connector, you pry up with your fingrnail between the ridged side of the connector and the plug.
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I got the wire out of the white clip but now there is a metal piece on the end of the wire. There is not one on the end of the new brown wire. Do I take that off and put it on the new wire? If I do how do I take it off?
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