CTT21GABGRAA Hotpoint Refrigerator

I applied some tips learned by reading other reviews. So before I started I grabbed my trusty vise grip pliers and a small screw driver. I locked onto the switch actuator, the part that the refrigerator door pushes in, with the vise grips and pulled on it just hard enough to get the screw driver inserted in the right side to push in the c ... Read more atch clip so the switch could be pulled out further each time the catch clip was depressed to the next detent. Then I used the screw driver on the left site to encourage the switch past the detents on the left and very quickly the switch was out of the mount. The wires from the refrigerator pulled out with the old switch. I unplugged the old switch from the wires and plugged in the new switch and shoved the new switch back into the mount, wiggled it a couple of times to make sure it was secure and the job was done. Once I applied the vise gripes at first, the whole job took less than a minute.

Removed back panel. Opened cover to relay attached to the compressor and pulled off replacing with new relay. No problem.

Better than paying $250 for someone else to do it.

Based on the symptoms I assumed the thermostat was faulty and replaced it. However, that did not correct the problem so I use a hairdryer to try to clear the vent to the freezer and dusted the coils underneath the unit. Still no luck. Next I pulled the back panel off of the freezer are to check the fan but it was working just fine. Ho ... Read more wever, the coils by the freezer fan were packed heavily with ice so I thawed the ice. That worked.