Ge Refrigerator Parts Guides — Complete Parts Guide

Five parts guides, and they sit at both extremes of a refrigerator repair. At the accessible end is the door gasket, whose guide covers the dart fins — the barbed ridge that holds the seal in its channel and the reason a gasket has to be fitted rather than pushed on. At the far end is the compressor. Between them are the control board, the fan motor and the thermostat.

The gasket is where to begin whenever the complaint is temperature, because it is the cheapest cause and the easiest to verify: a seal that no longer grips lets warm, humid air in for as long as the appliance runs. The fan motor follows, since cold air that is not circulating produces the same thermometer reading as a refrigerator that has lost capacity. The thermostat and control board come next, and the compressor is the conclusion of last resort.

That last item is also the boundary, and it is set by federal law rather than by difficulty: opening the sealed refrigerant circuit is restricted work. Gaskets, fans and thermostats are outside it and are fair game. Reading the compressor guide to understand what a technician will do is useful; doing the job is not homeowner territory. EasyBear services GE refrigerators across Sacramento and the Bay Area.