Whirlpool Refrigerator Parts Guides — Complete Parts Guide

Ten parts guides, and the temperature-control entry is the one to read first because it covers two different designs: a thermostat, also called a cold control, on the mechanical side, and a thermistor on the electronic side. Which one your refrigerator uses decides what a wrong temperature even means. The rest of the set is the door latch and cam, the door and dispenser switches, the gasket, the fan, the water filter, the inlet valve, the control board and the compressor.

Identify the control type, then work the cheap causes before the sensing part. The gasket and the latch-and-cam guide belong together, since a door that no longer closes square cannot seal however good the gasket is, and a cabinet admitting warm air runs warm without anything having failed. The fan follows, because cold air that is not moving reads as lost capacity. Only then does the cold control or thermistor come into question, and water complaints are a separate branch: filter, then valve.

The compressor is inside the sealed refrigerant circuit, and that is the boundary — the work is federally restricted, whatever the tool kit. Every other part in this hub sits outside it and is fair game for a careful owner. Reading the compressor guide to understand the diagnosis is useful; performing the swap is not. EasyBear services Whirlpool refrigerators in Sacramento and across the Bay Area.