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Caveman_Charlie
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Jun 27, 2022

My Fridge Died

:( :( My Norcold model 6053 fridge has all the symptoms of a plugged up pipe. I've tried to keep it level over the years but, I'm not the original owner of this Travel Trailer and,, it's 29 years old. I guess nothing last forever. It still sucks. I go dry camping sometimes and I have no wish to convert over to an all electric fridge.

I've been looking around the internet for a replacement cooling unit and I think I've found a good place called "RV Cooling Unit Warehouse". Does anyone have any reviews on this place or recommendations of other places where I can get a new cooling unit?

Has anyone done this job before and do you have any advice?

I'm not looking forward to the job and wish I could just buy a rebuilt fridge but, it doesn't seem like anyone does that. I just have to rebuild it myself. I've found a couple of You Tube videos on it but, none for exactly this fridge.

Does anyone have a good tutorial I can use to help me though this?

Thank you for any responses you can give.
  • Caveman Charlie wrote:
    My Norcold model 6053 fridge has all the symptoms of a plugged up pipe. I've tried to keep it level over the years but, I'm not the original owner of this Travel Trailer and,, it's 29 years old. I guess nothing last forever. It still sucks. I go dry camping sometimes and I have no wish to convert over to an all electric fridge.

    I've been looking around the internet for a replacement cooling unit and I think I've found a good place called "RV Cooling Unit Warehouse".

    I have a 21-year-old original Dometic fridge and I would probably go with www.rvcoolingunit.com guys.

    Cooling units are much cheaper to replace that entire fridges.

    Suggest you talk with someone at the cooling unit warehouse for replacement advice.

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