Ice Maker Assembly

Ice Maker Assembly

John from CO

Original Ice Maker just quit making ice. 2yr old Kenmore (from Sears) side-by-side refrigerator.

1/4" nut driver only.

The original ice maker on my only 2yr old Kenmore side-by-side started slowing down and then just quit making ice. I googled my refrigerator model# then the part# on the ice-maker label. On several sites, it came up with a replacement part# different than the original, so I searched again using the rep'l part#. Partsdr.com came up as one of the results, with the best price w shipping. Ordered online over the weekend, part showed up on my doorstep Wednesday afternoon. Removed the old icemaker: Using 1/4" nut driver remove 3 screws holding ice maker assembly to side-wall of freezer. Unplug 4-position wiring harness connector. Take old icemaker out of freezer. Remove plastic end-face-cover from old icemaker and install onto new icemaker. Remove flapper arm from old icemaker and install onto new icemaker. Installed new icemaker: Plug fridge wiring harness connector into new icemaker. (Note that the new icemaker I received from PartsDr included a short ~8" wire connector adapter, that was not required for my installation, perhaps this is used for different Model fridges?) Mount new ice maker to freezer wall using original 3 hex-head screws with 1/4" nut-driver. Flipped the arm down (to the ON position) a few hours later I had beautiful shiny new ice cubes! works great! For my problem (Icemaker quit) I wasn't sure if the icemaker itself was bad or the electronic water valve that opens to send water to the icemaker. All I knew was I wasn't getting ice. So I figured odds were higher that it was the icemaker, and ordered that part first. If that had not solved the problem, I would have then ordered the valve (PartsDr had that part too). Overall experience w PartsDr was 5/5 stars! Information on website informative, able to confirm I was ordering the correct part for my fridge. Completely painless online ordering. Perfect shipping and delivery on time. I cannot rate return policy or other aspects, only because I did not have need to experience them.

Ice Maker Assembly

Richard from IL

Ice maker was dripping/leaking and causing huge ice blobs in the cube drawer.

1/4” nut driver.

The replacement ice maker fit, using the same mounting screws and locations. The replacement ice maker had a different plug on the wire harness, but I was able to switch the old harness to the new unit. Putting the on/off arm on the new unit was only slightly difficult, but went together fine (the wire arm has a couple ‘ears’ on it, so you have to wiggle it to get it in the switch socket. So far, one month, it has worked fine and no leaking cube maker, or large ice blobs. 4 stars only because of the wire harness, otherwise would be 5.

Ice Maker Assembly

James from FL

Ice maker inoperable

Nutdriver

Troubleshoot the system, all was operable except the ice maker, replaced ops checked good. Ice maker working as required.