Jenn-Air JBL2086HES Bottom Freezer Refrigerator "side smell oil" Questions

...side and looked like it was leaking oil Hi, Refrigerant has tha oil in it to provide lubrication for the compressor. If you are seeing oil on the tubing, you may be losing refrigerant. Freon has a ...

...oil time to drain back down to the compressor. What you smell is insulation and plastic being melted. The compressor has ran so hot due to the lack of oil that the coils have melted into any plastic ...

...side where the wires go in. If fan then something came loose and stopped fan and the smell of electrical windings will be almost the same. Trying to run compressor if it will run will cause a ...

...side refrigerator with an Ice maker from Sears. The ice it makes smell fishy so bad that I could not use to drink with anything else but throw away  to the plants. So I unscrewed the ice maker . ...

...it will make a really caustic smell and burn your eyes... You will know where the leak is by the oil that it leaves behind...the gas goes away, but the oil says at the spot or even drips... ...

...smell Yesterday our electric went out for about five minutes and came back on, everything was fine. In the middle of the night last night, my dad said his light flickered and he went out into the ...

...like oil but they were soluble when water was applied the black gunge is moss(it grows in condensation)syringe out the drain hole(s)with clorine bleach,(it will gas off in no time and leave no

...smell compressor oil and acids that escape, and often you can see the presence of oily residue where a leak may be. As techs, we find the first thing a do-it-yourself-er will (especially husbands ...

...smell the freon itself but if the oil is a little burnt, that can be smelly indeed. You will need a special leak detector for that. Anyway my money is on the electrical. Feel free contact me again! ...

...smell away from your food. Use the oil sparingly for the same reason. Also remember that a stuck fan motor shaft doesn't spell doom and gloom for you since you can get it rotating quite easily with a ...