GE Appliances WR60X10185 Refrigerator Evaporator Fan Motor

I bought my GE refrigerator in 2002. It's the first refrigerator that I've owned that needs periodic circuit board and fan replacements. About every 6 years it seems. My last fan was purchased from Amazon in 12-2018. Recently I started getting frost build up in the freezer, and my ice maker stopped working properly. The fan was still running at this point so I ordered a new control board and installed it. After it was installed, the fan no longer worked at all. I ordered a new fan and installed it today. My freezer is working perfectly again, sitting at 8°, and my ice is freezing and popping out as it's supposed to. I'm a 64-year-old lady. Changing out the fan isn't hard, but in my refrigerator it's a process!! You have to remove the ice maker, two cowlings, the Shelf, the light, and the back panel. All the while being careful of all the wires that are connected to everything you touch! Lol!! Then you can finally get to the fan! You have to remove a housing bracket to get to the bracket that holds the fan in place. Once I had the new fan secured in its bracket, I did plug the refrigerator in to be sure that it worked! I didn't want to take the whole thing apart again, if for some reason it had arrived doa. Then you just reverse the entire process to put your freezer back together.Replacing the circuit board is so much easier! Anyway, this little motor fixed my 22-year-old refrigerator. And while I had it pulled out, I cleaned everything underneath it also. Now it's good to go for a while again. The motor I received is a Panasonic, as was the one I purchased 6 years ago. They were identical.

One day, the freezer and fresh food compartments started to get progressively warmer. The freezer had trouble staying below 32 degrees and the fresh food section was above 50 degrees. With the freezer door open and the door switched is depressed, there was no evaporator fan noise. The compressor can be heard running and it was chilling but without the fan circulating the cold air from the evaporator, both compartments remained warm. Additionally, this caused frost to build up on the back wall inside the freezer.This is the replacement part to fix the broken fan motor. Allow a few hours to replace the motor -- between emptying the freezer’s contents, removing the shelves, all of the shelf rails, the ice tray, the ice auger motor, the ice maker, the lights, the back panel, the fan mounting panel and then finally, replace the motor (and modify the wiring harness). Essentially, the entire inside of the freezer, except for the evaporator itself, is disassembled and then re-assembled. On a side-by-side, the freezer is quite narrow making it difficult to move around; pretty much, most of the work is done one-handed.Be aware that you may actually need part number WR60X10074 which is the fan motor with the wiring harness that has the defrost thermistor attached. Unfortunately, the only way to find out which one you need is to dismantle the freezer to get access to the motor and look at it. If you end up ordering this motor without the thermistor wiring, you can easily remove the two thermistor wires and their connector pins from the old harness and insert them into the new harness. There are two empty holes on the new connector. If you are replacing the fan motor, GE recommends that you replace the thermistor anyway.

The old fan was still working but was developing a very faint whining sound that was driving us crazy. Bought this OEM fan and replace the old one. No more whining noise. Exact correct replacement motor.

Milk spoiling? Fridge runs and runs and is cold in the back of the freezer, but no air blows when you open it up? You can fix your fridge! Rather than throw out that >$1000 fridge, buy a simple to install replacement part!This part was an exact drop-in replacement for the old motor in my GE refrigerator (same Panasonic part number).I did have to remove a molded on silicone rubber mounting piece on the old motor's wiring harness (this is seen in some photos of this motor out on the web) so I could mount it on the new motor. If you want to do this (optional, OCD engineer step), slice the rubber carefully lengthwise along the direction that the wiring runs so that you can free it from the over-molded part. Once you have the old wiring harness free, you can slip the rubber mount onto the new motor's wiring harness in such a way that the new wires run where the old wires were placed.While you have the fridge opened up for service, you should go ahead a check the controller board for damage (specifically the power resistors). Check the web and youtube for how-to videos that show how to measure voltage on the control board to see if it is damaged as well (Amazon sells these boards as well). I didn't need them, but I bet there are videos that walk you through the replacement process for the motor itself.Now my fridge works great again! Spoiled milk? A thing of the past!I gave this motor only 4 stars because although Amazon went above and beyond getting me the new motor by Monday afternoon when ordered Saturday afternoon, the old motor should not have failed in the way that it did (dead coil in the brushless DC motor drive as well as a horrid grinding noise from the rotor for months before the motor finally died).Update: Extra, unexpected benefit -> our icemaker started working well again. It worked before, but was real slow to fill. So if your icemaker works but is slow, the fan may be the culprit there too!