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My GE refrigerator GDS18LBPWW with freezer on bottom does not cool in the refrig. section. Yesterday, I pd $239 to have the Evaporator Fan motor replaced. The freezer is fine and back down to 26, but the refrig is still 63 and it has be 20 hours.

  • atanner28 Dec 29, 2009

    The fan motor was replaced and seems to be running, but the ice is back on the bottom of my refrigerator under the crisper drawers.

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The problem could be the electronic control if you have one or the mechanical linkages.



The ideal temp for the freezer is around 10 degrees F.
Look at the evaporator coils behind the rear cover inside the freezer and check the ice forming on the coils.

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    Your evaporator coils frost up in normal use
    and every eight hours or so the entire unit shuts down and the defrost heater
    comes on to melt the frost. This cycle last about 20 minutes. The melted frost
    drips into a drain pan and through a drain tube to the drain tray under the
    freezer/refrigerator where it's evaporated by the condenser fan.









    Your drain tube may be stopped up with ice at the upper end
    because it drains too slow because it's stopped up at the lower end in the
    evaporator pan under the unit at the floor. It can get dust and mold in it.
    Once you get the ice out at the top a little pressure with a turkey baster will usually clear it out. Flushing
    it out with hot water and clorox may help.


    Make sure it drains quick enough to prevent
    refreezing. . The drain should be located below the evaporator coils on the
    lower back of the freezer.




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