Fridge not cooling
After fixing my oven, with all of your help of course, I have now found that my fridge is not cooling. This TT is new to me so I have never actually seen it work personally. I have looked behind the...
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My fridge died in the middle of a very cold winter.
I tried everything I could to get it going again - made sure the heating element was working and that the gas end of it was good to go.
I left it off for several days, put a heater in the back.
All of this did nothing. I bought a small bar fridge to use meanwhile.
Finally I took the fridge out, put some foam sheets down on the parking lot outside, turned it upside down for an hour, and then rolled the fridge end over end around the parking lot, allowing it to sit a couple minutes at every end.
I put it back in my TT and fired it up. It has been working like a champ ever since. If fact it seems to be working better than it did before.
If there is a blockage of something in there like mine had, turning it end over end MULTIPLE times will yield the best results. Just turning it over and leaving it sit for a day may help but will be less effective.
The goal here is to have the liquid inside run back and forth from end to end multiple times, not just once.
It only takes a minute or two for the liquid to run from one end to the other. Anything past that is a waste of time. I don't understand this 24 hour thing.
When I did mine I let it sit on either end only until I heard the liquid stop gurgling and running inside, and then I turned it to the other end again.
When I "took mine for a walk", I turned it over and back about 20 times. It worked for me and I didn't have to buy a new fridge or cooling unit.
All this is assuming that all your other functions have checked out ok.
But as mentioned, if yours leaked the ammonia out way in the past, then you're up for a new fridge or cooling unit.
I tried everything I could to get it going again - made sure the heating element was working and that the gas end of it was good to go.
I left it off for several days, put a heater in the back.
All of this did nothing. I bought a small bar fridge to use meanwhile.
Finally I took the fridge out, put some foam sheets down on the parking lot outside, turned it upside down for an hour, and then rolled the fridge end over end around the parking lot, allowing it to sit a couple minutes at every end.
I put it back in my TT and fired it up. It has been working like a champ ever since. If fact it seems to be working better than it did before.
If there is a blockage of something in there like mine had, turning it end over end MULTIPLE times will yield the best results. Just turning it over and leaving it sit for a day may help but will be less effective.
The goal here is to have the liquid inside run back and forth from end to end multiple times, not just once.
It only takes a minute or two for the liquid to run from one end to the other. Anything past that is a waste of time. I don't understand this 24 hour thing.
When I did mine I let it sit on either end only until I heard the liquid stop gurgling and running inside, and then I turned it to the other end again.
When I "took mine for a walk", I turned it over and back about 20 times. It worked for me and I didn't have to buy a new fridge or cooling unit.
All this is assuming that all your other functions have checked out ok.
But as mentioned, if yours leaked the ammonia out way in the past, then you're up for a new fridge or cooling unit.
