How To Repair Kenmore Freezer Lots Snow
- #one
- Model Number
- 106.74252400
- Brand
- Sears Kenmore
- Age
- i-5 years
I have a Kenmore Coldspot model#106.74252400. About a calendar month ago it started to expect similar it was snowing in my freezer. Snowfall on ice tray (don't accept ice maker hooked up) and all over everything else. I have simply had this refrigerator for 3 years. Most 3 days ago all the same snowing in freezer just now the fridge part is warm. Sometimes when I open up the freezer it looks like a white out. Cold "smoke" blowing around. I paid enough for this you would recollect information technology would last more than 3 years. Tin can someone please assistance me. Thank you in accelerate. I am handy but I would need step-by-step instructions. Also I cannot find my manual. Thank you once again.
Jake
Appliance Tech - Admin
- #2
The snowing condition is usually related to an air leak, check your door gaskets for air leaks or gaps thats letting warm kitchen air in.
Its like chock-full up your return air ducts from your refrigerator then thats why its not cooling your refrigerator department.
Accept the food out of the freezer, then take off the within back panel#16 here:
Then check your air duct diffuser#26 for water ice/frost clogging.
Jake
- #iii
Well, the first thing to exercise is empty the box, shut it off, and permit it sit overnight to melt the snowstorm. Then check very closely for air leaks. Whatever risk y'all accept the in-the-door water ice dispensor? If the trap door where the ice comes out is open even the slightest amount, it volition frost up the freezer section. The defrost system is probably ok, just it can't keep step with an air leak. Since y'all're going to have it off for a while it's a good fourth dimension to clean the interior also equally make clean the coils underneath. Have off the front kick plate to access the coils. You should also notice the tech sheets behind the kick plate also. Then pull the fridge out, remove the dorsum cover,make clean the coils from the back, make clean off the fan blade and make clean out the drain pan. Permit us know how you brand out.
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- #four
snowing freezer-warm refrigerator
I cleaned out the refrigerator and freezer. Cleaned the ringlet in front - how disgusting, thick layer of grit and gunk. I now turned off the refrigerator part to OFF. Do I turn the freezer knob to OFF? Then what do I do subsequently that. Also how would I check for leaks if the refrigerator is off. I don't want to sound stupid but I think I am asking the right questions. Cheers. Oh likewise do I have to unplug the refrigerator? I yet take it plugged in.
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- #v
Accept a look at the door gaskets- any tears/rips? Practice the doors seal ok? Not warped? Do the door gaskets fit proficient all around the box when the doors are closed? Are the ice and water doors on the freezer door airtight tightly? Did you bank check the things Jake suggested? Did you shut box off overnight with the doors open up that any accumulation of ice on the freezer whorl could melt? Did you wipe up whatsoever water accumulation within the box? If all are ok then fix both controls to their midpoint settings and come across how it owrks out. If you have a defrost issue, it could accept equally long equally a week to show up. Let us know how y'all brand out. The feedback helps others.
- #6
snowing freezer - warm refrigerator
I checked all the gaskets around the frig and freezer...all await like they were new. I did take off the dorsum panel of the freezer and took a peak at the coils. Did not look like a ice build up. I had to take the ice maker on the side off. It was hanging because it is attached by wires. By the way my ice maker and water dispenser is not hooked upwardly...never was. Exercise I have to unplug frig. Practice I take to plow freezer knob downwardly to off or do I do it all. Hope this helps in someone helping me. Give thanks y'all for all responses. I have not left doors open all night yet because I merely cleaned information technology all out today. Also because I did not know whether to unplug or just turn knobs off. Cheers again. Deplorable again besides with the freezer knob still on and it plugged in the fan is not running. Should information technology be?
- #7
I demand to add that I got the back freezer console off and noticed that nether the evaporator coils information technology kind of looks like a pan. Information technology is filled with h2o. There is also a hole and I put my finger in there and at that place was ice. There is also ice under the vent tube (ii square openings with styrofoam in them and centre opening without styrofoam)there is ice on both. This is a continuation of post #6. Sad if I am jumbling this.
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Jake
Apparatus Tech - Admin
- #8
It will only be running if your compressor and condenser fan in the back of your refrigerator are running.
Clear the drain hole of all ice, and so the defrost water can bleed properly.
Jake
- #nine
snowing freezer - warm refrigerator
How do I know if information technology is gratuitous from ice. I put a harbinger downwards in the hole and didn't feel annihilation but of course the straw isn't too long. It has been 24 hrs. since I shut information technology off. Thank you.
- #10
Cascade some hot [not boliing] h2o in there and continue to do then until you melt the ice. You'll probably detect the darin is plugged with a food particle or the similar. A turkey baster [the kind with a squeeze bulb on it] works good for this. You'll know when information technology's clear coz the h2o will drain out. It appears that you found the problem; if the water from the defrosting mode can't drain out, that water vapor has to go somewhere- like all within the freezer department as snow, he he
- #11
Give thanks you for all responses. I turned on the refrigerator and I bought two thermometers for the freezer and fridge. What is the correct temp both sections and so I can monitor it over the next week or so. Also if the problem comes back (I'm a little pesimistic) what would it be then? Thank you lot.
- #12
ok and then the bleed is at present gratis and clear? did you lot cascade some h2o into it to make sure it's open? Set your controls at their midpoint seetings. Freezer could exist 0 to maybe 5 or and then. Fresh food side -38 to 40 is fine. Wait for the tech canvas behind the forepart toeplate, you should encounter some temps listed there. if it comes back, you might have a defrosting problem but that usually doesn't cause a snowstorm.
- #thirteen
snowing freezer - warm refrigerator
Well yesterday I plugged in the refrigerator and I put a thermometer in both sections. At 1:09 am the frig. read 38 degrees and the freezer 12 degrees. How long do you think information technology will take to see if everything is going alright? Thanks over again. At present on to the posts for ovens. GE-likewise 3 1/2 yrs. old problem.
- #14
What are the controls set for? Mid-signal of the range is the place to start. Is the coil underneath COMPLTELY clean? Sometimes you have to take the back panel off to go information technology all. The fan blade under at that place wants to be clean as well. 12 degrees is a little higher than I would like to see in the freezer side. Requite ait a day with minimal door openings and recheck. and so if needed, make small adjustments. 38 on the fresh food side is great, raising that to 40 woulkd continue more of the cold air in the freezer side. Oven problems? Are you in apparatus heck? he he
- #xv
snowing freezer - warm fridge
Well the refrigerator is at 38 and the freezer is at 0. I bought all the appliances - 2 fridges. two ovens, washer/dryer from Sears. Only mine, not grams. have issues. Mayhap because I use mine evidently more often (she never cooks) and funny, hers were cheaper. I tried to clean all coils as all-time as I could but I didn't take back off. I still have lilliputian refrigerator. just in case. Well off to oven mail service. Cheers all over again.
- #16
snowing freezer -warm fridge
Well it has been exactly 2 weeks since I turned my fridge back on and and so far temps are normal and all looks practiced. Do you lot call back it is rubber to unplug my trivial refrigerator at present or should I wait a footling while longer to see if my problem creeps back 
. I want to thank all that helped me over the past few weeks with this annoying problem. Thank yous.
- #17
From all here, you're welcome. After 2 weeks, I call up you're good to go. Cheers for the feedback.
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