My GE side by side stops working few days ago, I called for serivce and the tech replaced the Motherboard, The freezer start cooling, but the ref. didn’t. I called service guy again and this time he said that it might be the damper control and it needs to be replaced and I am still waiting for his Quote on the price to replace the damper control becase he said that its door is not funtioning wrong.I have left the damper door open by using a toothpick for almost 10 hours, the ref. is little bit cold, but not like before. I can feel cold air is blowing from the damper control.I did open the damper door all the way to make sure that it is really damper control that is faulty part here or do I need to change other parts too such as eva. fan and etc. Any suggestion!!! Thanks. Shawn
I bought the damper control from you guys and reaplaced it , but still the frig. doesn’t cool down when it was working fine before, I would say that it cools down to half of the temp. that when it was working.
Do I need to change any other part? or check something to see if …?
Thanks. Shawn
You said that you could feel cold air entering the fresh food side when you held the damper open so I am assuming that the evaporator motor is running.
I would check the temperature in the freezer, it should be around 0 degrees F.
Check to see if the new damper is open.
If not then your problem is elsewhere.
Make sure that nothing is blocking the air return between the freezer and fresh food sections.
PS: I am not an AppliancePartsPros employee.
I cannot get tech info on GE’s, they like to keep it a secret.
But did find this manual which may help even though the controls are different,
[http://www.applianceaid.com/frig.html](http://appliancejunk.com/ge/refrigerator/31-9072.pdf"]http://appliancejunk.com/ge/refrigerator/31-9072.pdf[/URL]
Here are a couple good sites with fridge repair info
[URL="http://www.applianceaid.com/frig.html)
http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/appliance/refrigerator/refrigerator.php
If your freezer temperature is zero or below, I would get a ohm meter, unplug refrigerator and check the fresh food,and refrigerator thermisters per my comments in the sticky above (GE refrigerator GS &PS) models
I got these schematics a few years ago and now they are not available.
If no meter, just replace the thermisters AP3185407, rather cheap; item241 in the parts breakdown.
I ordered the thermisters AP3185407(item241) few days ago, waiting to arrive. I have GE side by side freezer/frig with Model number GSS25KGMDBB and the serial number is VD235810 .where does it go? from front or do I need to open the back panel?
Thanks for your help
Shawn
Look at your parts breakdown for location, I think one is behind the damper cover and another behind the crisper drawer on the bottom.
When I replaced the control damper one came with damper attached to it already so I didn’t need to replace the unit here.To replace the one under the crisper drwawer, I can not find it to replace it. when I look at the breakdown of the unit , it shows that it goes between the freezer and frig wall in the middle, but don’t know how to access it or were it exactly located.at the bottom drawer of the frig, there is a adjuster that I can control if how much air can flow from the freezer to frig( There is a whole to the size of the penny).Maybe this unit only requires one temp. sensor that attached to the control damper.I can feel that air is flowing from the damper and bottom hole to the frig from freezer, but the frig still not cold as it used to be and If I put milk in there it will be rotten in couple of days and inside feel little warm too. So I am not sure what else I can do to fix this?
Thanks for your help.
Shawn
Looks like you only have one thermister in the fridg section. Did you measure the freezer temperature?
I haven’t measured the temp in freezer yet, but it looks like the freezer works fine , all the food in there are frozen just like before and the temp. adjuster is set to 5 for both freezer and frig.
I will measure it and let you know. I need to stop by How depot and buy a thermameter.
Thanks,
Shawn
Both Temperature Adjuster set to 5 and the Freezer is -10 degree and Frig is 56 degree.
What else should I check or repair to bring down the frig temp. to less than 40 degree?
Please let me know. It has been long time we have been without our main frig in the kitchen.
Thanks,
Shawn
You might have a bad damper, or just the door jamed shut. I would pull it apart to check. You can disconnect the damper door motor and jam the door open half way, will work untill you can replace the damper assembly. I have customers who just run the fridg this way without replacing the damper.
I bought a new Damper control last week from this site and replaced it, that was the suggestion of the tech who came to fix the unit at the first place, he replaced the motherboard twice and since the issue was not resolved he said that it is the damper control, so this time I bought the dapmer from you guys and replaced it myself. If I leave the frig door open for a while I can see that the damper door automatically opens and blows cool air to frig. So I am not sure if this is a sign of good damper or not.
before I change the damper, what I did for day or so was that I used a tooth pick and left the dapmer door open all the way and all the time, but what happen was that the stuff in the freezer starts melting so I took the tooth pick away and closed the dapmer.
Do you think I should ask for replacement damper or since the one I have the door opens and closes automatically is OK?
I am open to any suggestion at the moment!!!
Thanks for your help.
Shawn
I did use a wad of duck tape to jam the damper door open little less than half way, it worked for almost two month and the ref temp was between 30-40 degree, but again the ref. side started to warm up again.right now there is no air flowing from the damper door even though the door is open half way.I am not sure why there is no air flow from thr frig side to ref. side ? the air temp inside the ref. is between 50-60 degree.
Do you know what cause this to happen?
The freig side works fine , no problem there.
Thanks for your help.
Shawn
Your evaporator coils are probably frozen, very common for the defrost heater to fail on these.
What do I need to do now?
Thanks,
Shawn
Pull off the back freezer panel, if frozen coils, use a hair dryer on them, then check the heater for a broken element.
Check your frost pattern on the coils, if there is partial defrost, you might have an out of tolerance evaporator thermister, just check.
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i believed that’s the thermal fuse… cause’ this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nicyh6EUHc