Product review (5 stars): Skynet is here. They own us
The part worked.
I have learned from this experience that my refrigerator is NOT a refrigerator. It is a computer that refrigerates. Sky net has already taken over.
The digital readout on the frig initially told me it was the eveporator fan. So I replaced it. No luck.
I then did my own research and found out it could be the mother board. Didn't know a frig had a motherboard. Sure enough after much struggling to get it out from a very inaccessible place I snapped in a new one and it worked!

Nothing wrong with any of the mechanical parts. It was the damn computer.