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tickledpuppy
Explorer
Jun 06, 2015

Is Electric Heater Element replaceable in fridge?

I have an OLD RV... it is my home... so I try to maintain it as well as possible. The refrigerator is a Norcold 774 EG, from about 1982, same as my Winnebago Warrior. It cools just fine on propane, bu...
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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Jun 06, 2015
It is replaceable, but on that model it's a real pain. That uses a fat "cigar" type element, which is on the back of the boiler tube, so all of the sheet metal has to be removed to access it. Refrigerator pretty much has to be removed to do the work.
Do make sure the element is bad, as that type is pretty reliable, though certainly not perfect.

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