Lower Cooling Fan

Lower Cooling Fan

Scott from CO

Cooling fan in lower part of double wall oven stopped working.

Cordless drill with screwdriver and socket bits.

I was a little worried about doing the repair, but I also didn’t want to spend $500-800 on something that looked doable. We removed the oven from the wall after shutting off and disconnecting the power. We then removed the back of the oven and replaced the fan. Put it all back together in no time.

Lower Cooling Fan

Brent from OH

F97 Fan not turning fast enough. NO heat.

Nut driver. Wire ties.

This is the 3rd fan for this oven. now low speed has been designed out of the fan so hopefully, this will be a long-term fix. I also replaced the speed sensor just to make sure. The longest time was to remove the oven from the cabinet. I built a wood box to slide the oven out onto from cabinet.

Lower Cooling Fan

Rosemary from WA

code F97 lower oven fan not working. We bought a fan and a sensor.

Socket wrench, star screwdriver size T15, philip head screw driver.

We replaced the lower fan and sensor (code F97) in our GE double wall oven last night. It was a lot more work than anticipated. I thought it would be hard to get the oven out of the wall. We set up a table (a door supported by plastic crates) at about the same height as the oven to put the oven on when we were able to get it out of the wall. That was a big help. It was not as hard as I feared. We covered the wood floor with a heavy old curtain and a large cardboard box. It was a little hard to figure out what pieces of the external metal housing needed to be removed to find the fan. We finally did this, but many screws needed to be removed. Replacing the fan and sensor was not too difficult. After installing it, we turned on the electricity again and it worked. Nice. Then we turned off the electricity and continued replacing the exterior metal housing, which took forever. We ended up with the extra screws. When we put the oven back into the wall, we could not get it far enough back to be able to use the screws that were originally in place attaching the oven to the cabinet. So we just left it without these. It looked fine, and the oven is heavy enough so that I don't think it's going anywhere. And, best of all, it works. And second best of all, I believe we saved hundreds of dollars. And a final note. The fan we removed appeared to spin well. Thus, it may well have been the sensor and not the fan that needed replacing. We did not explore the answer to this question since the oven was working.