GE Appliances Refrigerator Evaporator Fan Motor WR60X26866, WR60X26033

This review is for GE Appliances Refrigerator Evaporator Fan Motor WR60X26866, WR60X26033. I have a GE Café French Door Refrigerator. I started to notice that I was getting ice forming in the deli drawer, and items in the upper half of the fridge weren't cold. A quick search online showed the likely culprit to be an evaporator fan that stopped working. I found this fan's model number on an online parts diagram for my model of fridge. I was surprised to find this part here and being sold by GE. The price was fair and had Prime One-Day delivery. I receive this fan the next day, and it was exactly the same fan I had in my fridge. Here are the steps I went through to replace my evaporator fan. I watched a couple of online videos. I removed all contents, shelves, and drawers from the fridge. The deli drawer has a couple of screws and a quick-disconnect power plug. I removed it, followed by the side rails. My side rails had one screw each, and they have to slide towards the front of the fridge, as there is male/female latch. However, I had extensive ice accumulation under the rails and around the evaporator cover. So, before I could remove the rails or cover, I had to melt the ice. I did this by turning off the cooling system, then I used a heat gun on about 15% power to start melting the ice. Alternatively, a water squirt bottle or steamer could also be used. The water bottle is very messy, but very effective. If you go this route you will need a lot of towels. You will need towels in the fridge and on the floor behind the fridge. There is a water drain for the evaporator, so if water starts to go down it, eventually you will have a stream of water coming out of the back of your fridge. I would think the steamer would be the best route. I didn't want the mess of water, so I used a heat gun. It took a long time to melt the ice that was under the rails, and it took a very long time to melt enough of the ice behind the evaporator cover. In fact it took so long that you may want to fill a cooler and/or sink with ice to put your food on so that it does not spoil while doing this. My fridge had six screws holding the evaporator cover on and one quick-disconnect wiring harness. There was also a small cover that went over the evaporator fan's power plug. That small cover just popped out with a small amount of force. Just one clip held it into place. Eventually, I was able to melt enough ice that the evaporator cover started to move when I pushed in on the bottom across the entire panel. I carefully pulled the top of cover back towards me, unplugged the deli drawer fan power plug, then carefully pulled the cover towards the front of the fridge. It's a fairly snug fit around the evaporator with all of the insulation that is attached to the back of the cover. The evaporator fan's wires were run through some molded clip that had no way of me running the wires out of or back into, so I cut the old fans wires and pulled them through. I slid the fan out and could see that it was rusted and seized up. It also had a rubber sleeve around it. I removed the rubber sleeve from the old fan and put it on the new fan. I put the new fan in the exact same way the old was in. Immediately the fan powered up and ran fine. I never put the wires back through the clip, and it works fine. I still had a lot of ice in the evaporator drip tray. I melted it all and soaked up all the water. I then noticed that the drain was clogged in the tray. I used a wet-vac with a thin attachment to remove as much water as possible. Be careful around the fins of the evaporator as they are sharp and delicate. I then put a small amount of hot water into the tray. I also used an airline hose for a fish tank to push down into the drain. You can also suck water out with the hose if you are having problems thawing out the ice clogged drain. Eventually after several cycles of draining the water and putting hot water down the drain it finally cleared. Then I was able to put all the pieces back, turn cooling back on, and the fridge was working just fine again. On a side note: Make sure you take pictures of everything along the way so that you know where all the screws, wires, and covers go back to. Have all your tools and towels ready ahead of time. Plan on the potential of this taking hours, so be ready with sinks, buckets, or coolers full of ice to keep your food from spoiling while you fix the fridge. You also may want to do a full cleaning of your fridge while you are at it, since you will have everything out of it. Had I realized there was a second fan for the deli drawer, I would have replaced that at the same time since it's time consuming to pull all those pieces back out again. Also, don't forget to turn the cooling function back on again. Overall, this was a very straight forward and fairly easy repair. The biggest headache and time-consuming part was just melting the ice. Additional Side Note: I noticed that my refrigerator runs quietly again. For quite a while I was hearing a clicking sound from my fridge time to time. I thought it was just a strange vibration from the condenser motor, but now I think it was the beginning of this condenser fan failing. So, if you hear clicking sounds from your fridge, it may be time to replace the condenser fan, and per my recommendation above, I would replace both the condenser fan and deli drawer fan at the same time.

Accessing the fan wasn’t my idea of fun but the install was quick and easy. This is a good DIY project that anyone with a set of wrenches can execute on. Get a good hair dryer and melt your coiling coils. Same noise as original which is surprisingly quiet. Good function. Lifespan is disappointing but at least its user serviceable parts.

We couldn’t keep anything cold. This evaporator needed to be changed. It was very easy to change and solved the problem immediately This is a very important part of keeping fridge cold. Well worth the price to fix instead of replacing a fridge or paying a repairman. This is a good DIY. We have French doors so we lose cold air easily. Very important to keep it running optimally.

This item arrived as described and when expected. Not 100% sure but I'm near certain that it is OEM or is at least equivalent to it. I ordered it for my GE 2-Door (door-in-door) refrigerator. It was making a loud buzzing/clacking hideous noise that was grating on the nerves and embarrassing when guest were around. I made some calls to see if I could get a technician in to repair it but didn't find much. I'm thinking appliance techs are becoming extinct. After nosing around Youtube and a few others I narrowed the issue down to this evaporator fan and pulled the trigger on ordering a new one and committing to doing the work myself. It looked like most Youtubers were taking the refrigerator apart with ease. NOT in my case! Getting the evaporator cover off was a bear to do without breaking it. Why? After slowly removing it I found that the cover, the insulation behind it, the evaporator coil and the evaporator fan were all covered in some measure of ice thickness. On a return visit to the Internet my question was easily answered. I simply had the refrigerator box temperature set too low at 34 degrees. It should be 37 degrees. I melted all the ice with a hair dryer, cleaned up the puddle of water, reassembled the refrigerator and raised the box temperature. No, I did not close it all up with the old fan in there. I did use the new one and I'm keeping the old one in inventory because these fans are known to fail for other reasons. More to the product point...this item was a near exact match to what was in the refrigerator, fit perfectly and started immediately on my first test run. It's been near a month now and the fridge is nice and cold and I haven't heard a peep out of that evaporator fan. Recommended.

We've had our GE french door fridge (model GNE29GSKISS) for just over 4 years. Recently, we noticed the temperature in the refrigerator had warmed to 59 degrees seemingly out of nowhere. The freezer/ice maker was working fine, and the bottom "Fresh Foods" portion of the fridge was cold, some items even frozen, but something was clearly wrong. I started by seeing if I could get this fixed through GE appliance repair, but it would've cost me $125ish just for the tech to show up, and they didn't have any availability until the following week. Not wanting to wait that long or pay just for someone to inspect the unit, I did some searching and found, as many other reviewers have noted, several different video guides stating that if your GE fridge has this problem (freezer working fine, but fridge warm), it was most likely the evaporator fan in the fridge that needs replacing. I decided to give it a shot - a $40 fan vs. a $125+ fee was a worthy gamble for me. (A side note - this fan costs $60ish on GE's parts site - the best deal I could find is this one on Amazon) After ordering the fan, we emptied everything from the fridge and freezer, turned off the water supply to the ice maker, and unplugged the refrigerator to let it fully thaw out for 24 hours. The fan arrived the next day, and from start to finish, replacing the fan took about 20 minutes; the most time consuming part was removing the rubber gasket from the old fan and putting it back on the new fan. After everything was back in place, I plugged the refrigerator back in and, over the course of the next few hours, watched the temperatures return back to normal operating temperatures. I also removed the back grate and vacuumed off the condenser coils (this can also cause refrigeration issues). A huge sigh of relief that this was such an easy fix, as we were initially afraid that we'd either have to spend hundreds of dollars in repairs, or replace the unit entirely.

Works but makes noises at times during day and only seems to last about 3 years, easy to change out, takes 10 minutes tops.

Great cheap replacement for faulty evap fan motor.

The old fan was inoperable and this did the trick to get our GE fridge cooling again. Simple fix with online videos and now we can replace it again when the fridge stops cooling again in another 5 years!

great product. worked perfectly. shipping took a bit.

Para reparar un refrigerador de un cliente

Can very fast . Fit perfectly

Fixed my fridge where it was not cycling cool air properly. The bottom meat/cheese drawer kept freezing. Replaced the fan behind the ducting cover after removing the drawers. Easy to fix, works great now. Attached a pic of the model of my fridge.

Exact replacement and fix the GE refregerator.