TFT22JABGAA General Electric Refrigerator - Instructions

Emptied the refrigerator door so it was easier to take off. Used a screwdriver to remove the screw on the top hinge. Lifted door off bottom hinge. Laid the door down so I could take the bottom hinge off. Removed worn out parts and placed the new one on. Slipped door back on hinge,made sure it would close properly and was lined up with freeze door. Put top hinge back in place. Done!! Now door finally shuts on its own again!!! EASY!!!

1 Unplugged Refrigerator and removed all the freezer shelves.
2. Removed the light bulb in the back of the freezer.
3. Removed rear panel on back wall of freezer. I had to do some defrosting on the back panel due to frost build-up.
4. Defrosted cooling coils using a hair dryer. This took a considerable amount of time due to frost build-up. Also, there was a considerable amount of water run off due to melting. I plugged the drain, and used towels and a bucket to soak up the water.
5. Removed the old element located at the bottom of the cooling coils and removed the wires from each end.. At that time, I also notice when the directions referred to "right" and "left", the point of reference was from looking out of the unit (not facing the unit).
6. Reroute the pink wire on the left side to the right side of the freezer coil. The defrost heater element I removed was a single heating element and the element I purchased was a double heating element. I then attached the blue and pink wires to the right side of the heating unit. (The pink wire was sufficiently long to reach the element. I did not need to splice an extension into it). The yellow "jump" wire was on the left side of the heating unit.
7. Attached the new heater to the freezer coil framing with the two screws.
8. Reinstalled the back freezer panel.
9. Reinstalled the freezer shelves.
10. I plugged in the unit to restart the refrigerator.

The defrosting took a considerage amount of time. Otherwise would have taken about 30-45 minutes.

First of all I'm 76 years old. The same thing happened 5 years before and I had a service man out to fix it. I did what he did. Unplug the heater from the harness and plug in the new heated.

1. Opened rear panel of freezer, exposed the evaporator which covered with ice. Using warm water to melt down the ice, and found the bad heater.Reinstall the rear panel, the referigerator working again, without the heater.
2. Ordered the defrost heater from you.
3. 4days later, the heater assembly arrived. I opened the rear panel of freezer again, replaced the heater. The problem fixed.
This is the second time to replace the heater assembly. GE stuff looks like not very good quality.

1. Blocked up the door keep it steadily and enable ease access to screws.
2. Removed screws holding the door closing cam and lower door attach bracket.
3. Disconnected clamp holding the water supply line for the water and ice dispenser and disconnected the water line at the joint.
4. Removed the broken cam and put the new one in it's place, threading the water supply line through the hole of the cam.
5. Put everything back together in reverse sequence of removal.

Followed Included instructions. My Fridge only had a single element heater; so I had to cut, strip, and relocate one of the lead wires for the heater. Overall it was a very easy fix.

This door was a problem for 1-2 years before I realized it had dropped about 2 inches. On close examination I saw that the hinge parts had completely broke down.
Had original manual-looked up model # on line under GE appliance and was surprised to find a large complete parts dwg showing parts I needed. Decided I needed the hinge assy.
Removed the door cap on top,replaced hinge assy and remounted door in reverse.--Works like new.

Removed the refrigerator door. Replaced the cam riser bushing on the bottom of the door. I then removed the hinge bracket on the bottom of the refrigerator after removing the grill (oh yuk, what a mess under the refrigerator). I put the new bracket on and replaced the door. All is working well again. Thanks for the hints and the parts.

removed back panel in freezer. defrosted coil, with hair drier. removed defrost heater kit. it was shot. ordered part sunday late afternoon and received the part tuesday am. great service. freezer and refrigerator worked fine after defrosting, but you want to replace the part to avoid freezing up again. to remove back panel, you remove 2 bottom guide rails 4 screws, 2 hex screws from back panel, 2 screws from defrost heater. i did have to splice wire [ provided with kit ] to reach heater.i did remove back panel twice and replace. without defrost time, even removing back panel twice, time for repair was little over an hour. at $40.00, with little down time, lots of savings, i will always deal with partselect. thanks you guys. i did the repair at 66 years of age, with no problem. you can to. one more tip. when defrosting, i placed aluminum foil under the coil and slightly up back wall. the foil was shaped to run water into a bowl in the freezer so it would not overflow the defrost pan underneath.

I had the refridgerator given to me by a friend who was tired of defrosting it. I took the cover off of the inside of freezer to expose evaporator and found defroster heater was bad. I replaced the heater , the unit works great , now i have approximately fifety dollars into a refridgerator that sells for about a thousand

Part no. Ps290199 received matched part no. Ordered, which I obtained from your web site, however, part did not exactly match oem part. It was necessary to drill a new top hole in each of the hinges. New hole center was drilled 1/2" off (lower) then hole in supplied part. Jpb could have been accomplished easily by the avg. Homeowner, but the drilling required a little more skill & possible some tools that an average homeowner does not possess. Otherwise job was relatively easy and satisfactorily completed.

The freezer coils were covered in frost because the defrost heater was not working. I first removed all of the shelves from the freezer, along with the icemaker tray. Then I removed the back wall of the freezer using a nutdriver and phillips screwdriver. The defrost heater at the bottom of the coils was easy to replace, the bracket was held in place with two screws and the wire connections were push on terminal lugs. The difficult part was melting all of the frost with a hair dryer, which was time consuming, and dealing with all of the water as it melted. Then I reassembled it and it works fine now.

1. Unscrewed the top screws with a socket set 2. Took door off of refrigerator 3. Unscrewed hinge assembly 4. Put on new hinge assembly 5. Replaced door on refrigerator 6. Screwed top screws back in I watched a youtube video on how to replace it that was extremely helpful. I am not a handyman, so if I can do this, anyone can.

Just watch the Parts Select YouTube videos on replacing the door hinges. That helped a lot.

All I needed was a phillips head screw driver and a 5/16ths socket wrench. Easy after watching the video a few times.

I took the back panel, 2 screws on top ,unscrewed the defrost heater harness . then I used a hair dryer to melt the ice around the coils , also used a piece of aluminum foil to make a tray to catch all the water under the coils to the bucket using the same plastic container a the bottom of the freezer 2 screws and relpaced with the new part . Done ! also I suggest to try to re route the wire to one side to plug its side before you cut them to add the wire included.(that;s what I did ) I hope it can help you . Thank You , Partselect.com . all the comments helped me a lot too..