TFT20SABKAA General Electric Refrigerator - Instructions

Take off the panel in the freezer side to expose the heater, defrost all the ice. Remove the screws that hold the heater in place and remove the wires from each end. Plug in the new unit and replace screws. Replace screws in the freezer panel, to complete the instulation. It will take the most time to defrost the ice, and clean up the water. To help defroct I used my wifes hair dryer. (She did not know it)

Disconnect the broken one and install the new one

removed door, removed old cracked riser aand replaced with new. You have a easy to follow parts site and very good prices. I will use you for all my future repairs.

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I removed the top hinge, lifted the door off the bottom hinge, rmoved and replaced the bottom hinge assembly, and reinstalled the door. I then aligned the door and reinstalled the upper hinge. The fridge works just like new!

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!!!

remove plastic top hinge cover then twoscrews holding door with door closed it rested against freezer door then lefted off door put on flat surface remove tow screws at bottom of door installed new cam

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.

I originally thought the problem was the little vent between the freezer and fridge, but after more research, realized it might be the defrost heater. Based on the advice of others, I removed the evaporator panel in the freezer, and frost was caked heavily on the freezer coils. We had a second, older refrigerator in our basement, and moved all of our food there, and then shut off the circuit breaker to the GE. I shoved something in the drain hole at the back of the freezer, and then packed the bottom of the freezer with towels. Once the part arrived, I just unscrewed the old heater, and followed the directions for installing the new one. I had to switch one wire to the other side of the coils, since the new defrost heater had two elements and both wires need to plug into the same side now. The hardest part was trying to figure out where an extra piece of plastic should go once I was putting all the racks back in the freezer.

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

Defrosted entire freezer coil with two of wife's hair dryers at the same time (about 30 minutes). Replacement of defrost heater was another 30 minutes to complete the reaplcement with the kit supplied and close up the inside rear panel. Word of caution is the clean-up outside the refridgerator took longer (45-60 minutes more) to clean under the fridge with vacuum and soak up water from the melted ice. Next time will devise a way to capture the water from melted ice and save on clean up time. Vacuuming was just a bonus during clean-up under the fridge. Kit supplied worked well despite water clean up. By the way this has happened before twice and the fix is always the same: new "defrost heater" Although this time I ordered a double coil unit to replace the single coil unit. According to website, dual coil provides better defrost cycle. My thoughts are also if one coil goes out again, I can convert the dual coil to work as a single in an emergency!

Removed evaporator cover panel. Let hair dryer remove ice and frost that had accummalated since the week before. Removed the two screws holding element to the coil,then removed electric wire at each end of element. Discarded old element and installed new in reverse order!

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.

I saw ice on the back panel in the freezer. I removed 4 screws and took the panel off. I read other repair stories on this site and decided it was my defroster that was broken. I am a handyman, but never tried to work on a fridge before. It was very easy. Instructions that came with it were very easy to follow.

First I had to kill the power to the refridgerator. Second remove the shelves from the freezer side. Third remove the back wall inside the freezer, this is two screws. Fourth I had to defrost the ice from the coils above the defrost heater. Fifth I removed the old defrost heater and installed the new one. Last I put the back wall and shelves back into the freezer. It would have been faster if I would have owned a heat gun. I had to use a hair dryer to remove the ice from the coils. Simply put, follow the instructions supplied with the part. Very simple fix that I've paid $175 twice before to a repair man to have fixed.