Lately, I started hearing a loud humming sound in my fridge and all of a
sudden, ice cream wouldnt
freeze, the fridge ****tion was warm. So, I opened the back and used a shop
vac on the fan by the
compressor. The problem was the same. The compressor is quiet and the fan
near it is quiet. I
removed the lights and plastic top on the inside of the fridge and I saw a
small rectangular box (it
may be a sensor or a thermostat) and a small rectangular hole next to it.
A little bit of cold air
was coming out of the hole.
The humming got louder so I took everything out of the freezer and removed
the rear plastic piece. I
saw a fan where the loud humming is coming from. It was full of ice, so I
turned off the power and
let it all thaw out. When I turned it back on, there was a lot of cold air
coming out of the hole on
the inside top of the fridge.
So, it looks like the compressor makes the air cold and the fan on the
bottom blows the cold air up
to the fridge and keeps that section cold. In the past week, this has
happened three times so my fix
is only tem****ary. When I thaw it out, the ice cream is frozen solid and
the fridge is cold as heck.
What is causing the bottom fan to ice up and thus, not be able to blow the
cold air up to the
fridge? Is there a sensor that is not working?
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