PeaceCheese
Premium Member
- Model Number
- 106.51133210
- Brand
- Sears Kenmore
- Age
- 6-10 years
Kenmore Coldspot: 106.51133210 (side-by-side)
The refrigerator started getting warm so I moved almost all the food to garage fridge. Some things I moved from fridge to freezer because the freezer temperature was roughly what the fridge should be. After a day or two it got cold again and froze everything in the freezer but warmed up again.
The refrigerator started getting warm so I moved almost all the food to garage fridge. Some things I moved from fridge to freezer because the freezer temperature was roughly what the fridge should be. After a day or two it got cold again and froze everything in the freezer but warmed up again.
- Cleaned coils underneath fridge from front - took baseplate off and vacuumed.
- The condenser fan works fine. The evaporator fan seems to be working fine.
- Changed the run capacitor and start relay. No change in function - will get cold for a bit after a few days then then warms again.
- Noticed buildup of ice along the back wall of freezer. Tested the defrost heater (ohm reading 32.4). Tested the thermostat - continuity tone / ohm reading .6.
- Thought it was possibly wire connectivity issue so removed the connectors for heater and thermostat and put 3” wire extension and used wire nuts to reconnect heater and thermostat. Turned on fridge - after 36 hrs the freezer is around 33 degrees and fridge is roughly 40. (Set to -3 / 37) At around the 24 hour timeframe the water in an ice tray froze but then thawed again.
- From my research there is no independent defrost timer - it's controlled by the circuit board. That’s at least $200. Don’t want to pay for that and then find out that the problem is with something else.