KUWA244PBL00 KitchenAid Wine and Beverage Cooler - Instructions

Unplug the unit before you do anything. The thermostat control is mounted on the front bottom of the wine cooler. It has the knob that sets the temperature. A solid wire runs from the thermostat, underneath the unit, up the back, through a small hole in the back, and then down behind the cooling panel inside the cooler. Wires are connected to the thermostat with connectors that simply slide on and off. Make sure you remember which one goes where on the replacement. The sensor is mounted with a clip at the bottom and behind the cooling panel. It's held in place with two screws and nuts.
First I removed the panel on the very back of the wine cooler. Then I removed the screws holding the thermostat control in place and cut the wire running up the back. The cooling panel inside the unit doesn't appear to come out. I loosened the screws at the bottom of the cooling panel to give me some room to work, and removed the screws on the clip holding the sensor coil. You can't pull the coil back out through the original hole, and you can't insert the new coil through the hole. I took a box cutter and made two half inch cuts running down from the original hole (the lining is plastic), essentially turning the hole into a slot. That gave me room to insert the new coil and push it down. You'll probably have to cut away some foam insulation to get to the hole. When done, shove it back in and put some tape over it.
I was able to seat the new clamp and screws by holding the cooling panel out with one hand. Screw the new thermostat in place, put the knob on, and turn it on. That's all there is to it.

Unplug, remove the back and the front grill. Loosen bolts on thermostat in the front, open frig door and loosen bolts holding bracket for other end of thermostat. Chip away insulation so that coil could be pulled from inside frig to outside. Bolt in new thermostat from the front and feed pig tail on other end through the hole so it's inside the backing in the frig. It's challenging but you need to feed the pigtail into the existing bracket and fasten the bolts again. Put insulation back in where you chipped out and install the back and front grill.

To replace the light bulb, I removed the screw and the cover, unscrewed the old bulb, replaced with the new bulb and replaced the cover, securing it with the small screw. It worked appropriately with normal use for a few days and then I noticed the light was not coming on when I opened the door.

I removed the cover and pulled out the bulb to find that the filaments inside are dangling and burned through. I need them replaced, please.

I raised the top of my Whirlpool Continuous Cleaning Canning Oven, then had to unscrew 3 screws and a lock nut, then raise top about 4 inches, so I could put my hand inside to unplug the wires to the switch, and push it through the hole in front, of oven. Then put the new switch through hole and plug in new switch. Then screw down top; and close lid. Part #866294

Replaced thermostat

Al lI had to do remove the oh swith & attach th e new on & push in place
It took about 5 min. to turn off the electric & to turn it back on.
Glen V

Unplug, In the cooling compartment of Refridgerator take out the wine racks and disconnect the cooling panel in the back,then disconnect the thermostat wire (coiled) that is screwed into place at the middle bottom of the cooling unit.Once this is free,take off the back panel and find the thermostat wire that comes from the front and goes up the back. This silver wire is the same wire that you just disconnected. You will have to cut away the insulation to be able to pull out this wire and also to later replace it with the new one. After pulling the wire out of the back, take off the lower front panel and remove thermostat knob and save. Behind it is the thermostat. Unscrew the two screws and remove thermostat. Mark the two wires or take a picture with your phone so when you replace the thermostat you plug the correct wires. Carefully pull the thermostat wire through the unit. To replace it, feed the coiled wire through unit from front to back and put coil back into the same hole you just made to retract coiled wire into the wine space, attach to the cooling panel. Then use "great stuff" or similar insulation to replace the insulation that you removed earlier. Connect wires to thermostat. reconnect cooling panel. Replace back panel, front lower panel, knob, plug in and hopefully its cooling again. Replace shelves.

Ordered the Thermostat And replace it in about 30 minutes saving me 185.00 $

Discovered no cooling to unit. Spoke to local repair people and found out more often than not it is the thermostat, however they tried to convience me that it could be about 10 other issues. There was absolutly nothing but the light working on the unit. Decided to order the thermostat kit and take my chances, alternative was a minimum of $500 for decent replacement. Recieved part,disconnected from electric, removed back sheet metal cover which exposes the insertion point of temperature monitor. Disconnected 2 wires to existing thermostat and removed 2 screws holding in place. Temperature monitor is installed to bottom of back interior plate, I decided to remove all interior shelves which are held in place by plastic push pins, center of pin pulls out leaving female componet installed into shelf clip and side wall of unit. After removing shelves removed back plate by removing 4 corner screws and nylon stand offs. Unscrewed temperature monitor cover and removed old thermostat. Pushed new temp monitor into unit and attatched to power at front, tested by plugging in. Worked. Unplugged power and reassembled unit back to pre-fix condition. Unit now working fine. Found on my unit that the new temperature dial at front of unit was to big so used old dial.

remove the door, drillout pop rivits and remove the door skin. remove old door seal and feed new seal into the track that hold the seal to the door. replace door skin and pop rivit in to place. replace door on the refrigeratoe.

removed front panel, removed back panel, pulled large cooling line away from insulation (2inches) to access thermostat tube hole. Pulled out putty where line enters back. Inside back of cooler, removed 4 screws on cooling plate. unscrew braced at bottom center which holds coiled sensor. (new bracket comes with parts kit) Pull sensor tubing out of hole from back. Remove mounting screws from thermostat switch (control). Manipulate switch out to front as you feed tubing from behind. Reverse to install new parts. I used a piece of string around back of small coil end to help feed tubing through hole in back. String helped.