KND2049 (4L44A) Admiral Refrigerator - Instructions

Removed rear cover to see non-operating fan - removed three mounting screws on the motor that were a challenge to access. Swapped fan from old motor onto new motor - one threaded nut on the motor shaft. Spliced new fan wires into fan wires of the wiring harness and mounted with three self-tapping screws supplied with new fan motor. Replaced rear cover and plugged it in! Now the refrigerator cools like new (1981 model side-by-side Admiral)

Unplug the Frig and left the freezer side total defrost. Mine was so frozen up, it took about 6 hours with the door open. I had a towel in the botton to catch all the water and ice that fell.

Removed all the shelving units. There are 3 screws that hold the ice maker in place. Loosen the 2 screws above the ice maker about 3 or so turns. Then remove the screw under the ice maker completely. Then lift the ice maker off of the 2 screws that you just loosened. Then with a small flat blade screwdriver, push the plastic clip that holds the connector of wires that plug into the ice maker.

Then remove the screws that hold the back plastic cover that conseals the coil.

Now you should see the coils. There is one heater unit in the middle and one at the botton. There is a screw on each side of the heater unit that you need to take out. They are screwed into a metal bracket that is part of the coil system. Once the screws are removed, you simply remove the heater units. They are plugged in at the top of the coil system on a circuit board. Unplug them from there, (one of the spades connector was slightly bigger then the other, so I new where to plug them back in). Fish all the wire and heater untis out and you are ready to re-oinstall the new units.

Getting the wires back up through the coils was tricky, but I was able to do it.

The hardest thing was working inside the freezer unit. It is not very wide and was sometimes hard to get both hand inside to work.

I unscrewed the broken piece remaining on the large screw on the dial, screwed the new knob in place, and I had a "new" washer! It was that simple!

The repair was simple. I just removed the broken knob and replaced it with the new knob. The real story is I ordered the replacement knob one day and it was delivered the very next day. Fantastic service from PartSelect. Thank you.

I shipped knob to son his wife installed before he got home.

The knob fell apart &when I got the new part I just
put the new knob on & it was fine.

Screwed it on. Done.

Used pliers to twist the broken knob part off the threaded stem, replaced with the new one. Easy, took 5 minutes. Was happy I could find a replacement for an 18 year old washer! Using vice grips to turn the machine on every time I did laundry was a less-than-ideal situation! Thanks!

Just screwed onto machine.So easy a caveman could do it!

Unscrew old rescrew new part.

Turned the small piece the knob broke off of counterclockwise to remove and turned the new knob on by hand. Took less than a minute and it works like new. Thank you.

screwed off old, screwed on new. New knob is better made than original.
Thanks

I ordered the replacement knob on line. Was relieved to read that the replacement was made of metal instead of the plastic (why it was made of plastic boggles my mind) It arrived promply and I was able to screw it on rather quickly. I am a senior citizen and was glad I did not have to travel to a replacement location.

just removed the old one that was made of plastic and put the new one that is better material.

Was real easy just replaced the new knob where the other one came off. Was real please didn't need to replace my washing machine. Got the new knob in record time and was easy to replace.