TFX22JABEAA General Electric Refrigerator - Instructions

Disconnect the broken one and install the new one

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.