Ice Maker Repair 

Do they give Emmy awards for instructional videos. Great announcer reading a finely tuned script. Maximum clarity. Feel like I just took a week's worth of classes at a vocational school. Congratulations and thank you.

Wow. What a stellar and comprehensive overview of icemakers. No "ums" or "uhs", no people in the picture blocking the device, and yet a full walk through of the product parts. I've watched a lot of youtube through the years. This video is done professionally, and explains all the common problems. THANK YOU for posting it.

I do a lot of home and appliance repair myself. And so I read a lot of guides and watch a lot of videos. I am so tired of 20 minute videos with 2 minutes of poorly focused information and 18 minutes of jabber-jaw. This video was SO GOOD that I literally stopped everything I was doing to tell and show my wife how good it was! Perfectly explained, fantastic quality, I can actually SEE what you're showing, and you managed to fit a huge amount of information into less than 8 minutes. I've seen videos that would have taken that long just to explain how to test only ONE of the half-dozen functional circuits that are in these devices.

I have been repairing appliances for nearly 45 years and watched many videos on youtube. This is by far in the top 10 of best instructional videos I have ever seen hands down !

Thank you so much. Super video. Such a joy for once to get a video from a sane, intelligent, competent person who speaks clearly and comprehensibly.

Are you kidding me? Why couldn't I find this video, like, this morning? The last 60 seconds is exactly what mine is doing, but all the other "diy" videos claim, "yup, got a bad icemaker, gotta replace it". Thank you so much for landing in my search results this time! Just saved a hundred bucks!

An excellent video...Being a former service/repair man and HVAC instructor, now a Handyman, it is common to be called out on icemakers, and as an instructor this video would have been a great tool for showing students just how they work and how to repair them....Kudos to the gent that made it.

Thank you!!! I am a total novice (59 year old widow) and your video not only gave me clear, informative directions to both troubleshoot and/or repair my icemaker, but also sharp video to illustrate your discussion. You have given me the confidence to try to repair it myself. My icemaker has worked on and off for years. The last time I had a repairman out while it was still under warranty, it worked, of course! I appreciate the option to repair/reuse/reclaim in our throw away society any opportu

This is the mother of all ice maker tech videos and information resources! It's accurate, articulate, clearly explained, well narrated, and directed professionally. Just an excellent delivery! Thank you.

Thanks for posting! This is, without a doubt, the best video I've seen for exactly how this ice maker works.

WOW, you did an amazing job explaining EVERTHING!!! This video is a"Must See" for anyone wanting to trouble and repair their Ice-Maker. Thank You SIR!

Probably the most simple, easy to understand without a lot of fluff home instructional videos I've seen. Production values are good too without shaky cameras, mumbling narration or poor shots. BTW, this is the same ice maker I have in my Frigidaire

This has to be one of the best instructional videos I have seen on youtube! I feel like a ice maker technician after watching this and can not wait till I get to use this knowledge! Keep up the good work.

Almost ten years old and still great info. The technology hasn't changed so much. Funny how my replacement ice machine went back to mechanical parts! And, thank you for the info! Got more than I thought I would!

Sir this has to be the best ice maker video explanation on RU-vid, thank you

Dude, you're THE man! About the best theory of operation & troubleshooting video I have ever seen in my many years of electrical engineering! Companies selling parts of appliances don't usually want you to know how to diagnose & fix every little part, but would rather have you buy a whole new thing, wasting money & natural resources!

Great explanation and presentation on my nearly 50 years of listening to people trying to explain how to do all kinds of things including myself that was the best you should be boxing that up and selling it. I'll take dozen!

My husband and I have learned so much on RU-vid. We have done so many repairs ourselves. Have spent at least 3-4 hours just today to identify the problem with our icemaker! This video was excellent, informative and educated both of us on the workings of the ice maker, better than any of the other videos. Thank you so much!!!

Easily one of the best, most comprehensive self-help videos I've ever seen in all my years of watching You-Tube. Thank you!

I've been struggling with a Whirlpool ice maker that doesn't make ice. I've watched 10 other videos/articles until I came across your. This video told me everything I need to know to diagnose and repair everything having to do with the ice maker. What a fantastic job you have done. Thank you sooooo much for such a good video. It turns out that the valve is faulty. Yours is the only video that talked about testing the valve circuit with a multi-meter.

OUTSTANDING video. I've replaced one of these 14 years ago and this was a great refresher for the intermittent trouble I'm having now. Very well done - lots of info and presented in a very interesting way. Thanks.

This is the first and maybe only video you need to watch about icemakers. It's got information you won't find anywhere else. No B.S. just accurate information. You'll love this video!

EXTREMELY informative video. I spent more time searching through videos than I did watching you’re entire video. The Ohms Testing portion at the end of the video was the most helpful.

Out of all the icemaker videos out there, this one was hands down the best! Thanks!

That was a great video, thank you for the test points on all the components, now I can troubleshoot my ice maker. Saved me alot of headaches.

one of the best instructional videos i've seen, thank you!

8 years to the month later, your video is still super helpful for my old ice maker. Thank you!

Watched about a dozen videos on this subject and this one is far and away the best. Comprehensive, great footage and succinct. Thank you!

Best and most informative video I've seen. Most helpful down to the last few seconds that addresses water fill level adjustment.

Man, you and this video are awesome! I've never had to repair our ice maker, so it was very cool to find that you're working on the exact model we have. Thanks so much. I'm going to run the resistance checks you suggested, but I think I'll just order one from your site too. This one is around six years old. Thanks man.

Outstanding video! I worked on appliances when I was in high school (over 40 years ago) for the most part, appliances have not changed too much, with the exception of motor driven timers are now electronic timers. The ice makers are still the same and Whirlpool, being the Biggest giants, manufacture most of them. You are so correct about ice makers not lasting very long. ALWAYS replace the ENTIRE unit, Not just the motor. I learned that the hard way. Just after I replaced the control module, the heating element went out. (Which made the old module strip the gears when it could Not push the cubes out).

I went through some of the steps in your video, and so far, so good. You guys may have just saved me about $300. Thanks for your help! Naturally, the folks over at Sears/Kenmore aren't giving this kind of advice on their help line. The only thing they can really tell you is how to schedule a visit from one of their repairmen for a measly $75 per trip. Garbage.

By far the best video to explain ice maker functions. EXCELLENT. Thanks moocho!

Excellent video very detailed and informative. Thank you SO much!

Thanks a lot, I fixed my ice maker thanks to this tutorial. Turns out there was just some ice blocking where the water comes in. It was leaking all over my freezer. Easy fix and saved me a lot of money!

nice video guy, I've watched about thirty now and yours is probably the shortest and yet most thorough out of all of them.

Outstanding detail and a thorough explnation of all components. I learned sooo much. Thank You very much

Hell yeah! Yesterday my dreams came true (my $500 fridge made delicious clean ice) and I finally have a fridge that serves me ice water! Thanks for the knowledge sharing as always.

This is just about the best diagnosis and adjustment video I've ever seen. Thank you very much for taking the time to do it right.

Excellent. Thank you. It is people like you and videos like this that make the Internet a valuable source of information. And thanks to all of you who post DIY videos on ice makers, cars, potato canons, and everything else that requires a little knowledge and finesse. As for the shameless plug, it is well deserved. Thanks again.

What a helpful, thorough, and wonderfully comprehensive tutorial! If only more things were explained like this. Thanks! PS I still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with mine, but it was frozen solid, so hopefully it will run anew after having been thawed out and emptied.

Too bad this video doesn't come up first in the search results. Excellent and thorough!

What an incredibly clear and comprehensive explanation. I came to this site because I went away for one day and turned the water supply off in my house and FORGOT to turn off the ice maker by lifting the arm. Now the ice maker it is not making ice. I just poured some water into the tray and the harvesting arm came up but there was no ice ejected. I'll see what happens tomorrow. Thanks for this video.

Just wanted to say Thank you for the info. I knew absolutely nothing about the icemaker in my fridge I'm sure that sometime in the future this is going to save me money.

Thank you for your excellent video. It couldn't be better.

Awesome video, very complete and detailed, i now have a very good idea of exactly how my icemaker works and why I am having issues with it. Thank you very much!

Nice vid. Finally I find a complete breakdown of how the standard ice maker operates and comprehensive troubleshooting methods. Good job. You really did your homework. I was going to make a vid putting together all the bits and pieces I have discovered in other vids and from experimenting, but you beat me to it, I guess. Nice. Wife bought the house with double door fridge of unknown age already in it, now 4 years later, ice maker isn't working. I was going to go straight into shopping for a whole unit until I started looking into it in more depth than just works / doesn't work. I can still do that of course, but now maybe I don't have to. Thumb up.

Exactly what i needed to see. For weeks my icemaker has been overflowing. i have been searching far and wide for a way to adjust flow. Replaced inlet valve prior. I adjusted the white timer screw and everything is perfect. Thank You.

The best video guide ever saw....

"If you have small cubes don't be embarrassed." Good one. Excellent video.

I have a 22 yr old Kenmore side by side which is still working great ( knocking on wood! ) . A couple months ago the water fill level made "cubes" too thick to pass through the chute. Never knew you could adjust the fill. I looked at some other repair/adjustment findings. Your's was the first to show the little hole which indicates the adjustment from factory setting. Exactly the information required to adjust without damaging the unit.

Exellence video !!! I'm just finish Hvac school,,,my cousin just ask me to fix her refrigerator.It doesn't make any ice at all. This is my first test and I will use your instructions as a guideline. You're explaining better than my instructor. Thanks for this video!!!!Good job.

Wonderful tutorial!

Extremely helpful video. Thank you for being so thorough

Best instructional video I've seen so far on this ol internet. Thanks for the knowledge transfer!

I fixed it!! The motor was bad. we put in a new ice maker and it works. Thanks again!

That was the most informative video I have watched on this subject . Thanks it really helped clear up a lot of questions about these systems.

Well done. 9 years later still helpful.

Thank you. A simple adjustment, learned from this video, saved me much grief.

That was by far the best instructional/troubleshooting video I have watched, and boy have I watched a lot. Thank you!

Great vid!!! Among a plethora of absolutely goofy other vids on this topic, this was refreshing ;-) and informative.

I think this was more advanced than putting the first man on the moon. Now every time I fill up my cup with ice and drink nice cold water, I will eat each ice cube humbled and ponder the complexity it took to make my little frozen apple slice shaped friend. All hail the ice maker.

This is the best troubleshooting and instructional video I have seen on RU-vid or probably any other site. Nice job.

This is the best ice maker video I have found. Thanks!

I had a similar problem except the intake pipe was freezing where it enters the fridge and creating a puddle on the floor. The fix was simple. I purchased a 25’ length of 1/4” tubing and placed it on the condenser in the bottom of the fridge. The water in the tubing was warmed by the condenser and entered the ice maker a bit warmer. No more freezing.

"High quality H20" I see what you did there! lol

Fantastic presentation and simple to follow. Very helpful for a problem I've been dealing with. No other video helped me as much as yours!

Thank You! I purchased a used model which stop making ice after four weeks. Your video showed me where to look for the problem (clogged spray tube) and how to fix it. Yes! The bin is already starting to fill up with ice. Again, thanks!

Ice will clump up over time from the defrost cycle, when the freezer warms up for a few minutes every few days. If you are seeing frost elsewhere in the freezer you may have an air leak at the door seal, or perhaps the door is not getting closed well every time... Hope that helps, Good luck!

Excellent video on how ice maker work. Thank you!

The best straight forward video on the topic. Very good presentation of the information needed.

Mr. Appliance Assistant....WORDS are not enough to Express my Thank you to YOU AT 4AM!!! AND THIS VIDEO.! IM A single mom, in a rental unit AND I WAS ABLE TO REMOVE MY ICE MAKER, WHICH MEANS ANYONE CAN DO IT THAT CAN FOLLOW YOUR DEMONSTRATION. Owner lives out of state. I work full time and have no time to wait for some appliance man for 6 hrs to get here. Been there done that! Lol. I just replaced a clogged faucet head with $21.78 faucet head replacement from Lowe's. So Cancelled technican out to my house...lmao. saved owner $350. Next my ice cube maker was making this ticking noise this morning at 4am and I hate noises. So first I'm like where is this noise coming from. Low and behold...noise is coming from stupid ice maker I never use!!!! I have a frigidaire gallery model. So I first pull plug on fridge at 4am. Noise stops. Put plug back in, starts again. Im like I need to find a way to shut off the ice maker. I pull plug on fidge again and hop on RU-vid and find your video. Omg thank you! You make it so easy, you explain it so nicely in layman's terms and so I unscrew ice maker, and find that its all corroded and detach it. EXACTLY AS YOU DEMONSTRATED. COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY Easier!!!! I LITERALLY HATE NOISY ICE MAKERS WITH A PASSION. THEY NEED TO MAKE THEM SILENT. ANYHOW, PROBLEM SOLVED. ILL ORDER A NEW ONE BEFORE I MOVE OUT AND SEND BILL TO OWNER. WILL DO INSTALL MYSELF WHEN UNPLUGGED. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US SOMETHING SO EASY THAT AN APPLIANCE MAN WOULD CHARGE AN ARM AND A LEG! KEEP THE GREAT HOUSE APPLIANCE VIDEOS COMING...THAT SAVE US LOTS OF TIME AND GRIEF and money!!!!! THIS VIDEO IS 7 YRS OLD AT LEAST AND STILL INCREDIBLY VALUABLE!!!!!!!

Excellent video - a few comments. The thermostat is across test points T & H not T & L. The wiring diagram in the video shows this. The motor resistance reading can be higher than 4000 ohms, the new one I purchased was 7500 ohms.

Thanks brother! It's always nice to hear from people in other parts of the world! I just finished watching a movie "The Way" About a 500 mile pilgrimage through France and Spain... Beautiful! Now I need to free up a month for the walk. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for posting this. My water line was frozen but my ice maker is different than the one you used and I wasn't able to pull the line out. I used a hairdryer on the line at the end near the ice tray and where it goes into the top of the unit behind the fridge. That got the water flowing and the first batch is freezing as we speak. Thanks again.

Dude you just saved my life, thank you so much for this video, I always wondered why my ice maker had pop cicled hanging down and ice sticking at the top

Thank you...thank you...thank you. Just saved a lot of money and it was very simple to install...well would have helped to be double jointed since it was in a bottom freezer, but your instructions were super helpful.

Thank you for the ohm readings. Saved a bunch of time trying to troubleshoot.

Thank you very much I'm handy with the tools but it's easy to break tabs or other plastic parts,having you walk through the repair process it becomes very easy! Thanks again Randy

Clear and concise! No wasted words! Thanks!

Great video! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. It's guys like you that are a tribute to humanity by helping others!

This is THE BEST VIDEO to watch if your ice maker is not performing as it should...!!! Thank you for making this video...this is the ONLY VIDEO I have seen that explains the water level adjustment screw...I thought that might be what it was for; but you just confirmed my suspicion, thanks again...!!!😊 UPDATE: Replacing the icemaker was only part of the problem; water inlet valve was also kaput, had to replace that too...valve was not shutting off completely; water kept trickling into the ice tray, but would freeze and clog up the delivery tube...EXACTLY as described in the video...!!! Less than an hour to replace valve...and now it works like NEW...water delivery is faster too...with nice big ice forms like this fridge has not produced in over 15 years...!!! Thank You so much once again for making this video...!!! I wish I had seen this one First...!!!😃👍

This is a fantastic video. I had been searching for awhile trying to find anything on this style of ice maker to adjust the size of cubes, I was getting the overflow effect. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!

I super glad I found your video! This is exactly what I was hoping to find as you gave us a whole technical comprehensive fridge systems training with such a well put together video! Thank you so very very much and I'll be making use of all your nice videos from now on! Hasta Pronto!

Best, and most concise DIY on RU-vid!

Wonderful! Thanks for leaving a post, I'm glad it helped!

This is a great video. I've been looking for information on this type of ice maker, or a schematic; now I found a theory of operation. Thanks for the great video.

Phenomenal video. Actually answered everthing I was looking for and more to test my ice maker. Big thanks!

This was the best instructional video I’ve ever seen. Thank you very much!

Great video. Crisp, precise, and packed with advice.

Such a great video, I feel that I know 100 times more about an icemaker than. So thorough, great job.

Thanks for explaining the water level adjustment. A quick adjustment prevented my ice maker from leaking all over the freezer. Sadly extra ice blocking the auger had already damaged the drive mechanism but at least we have ice now.

im a sears service tech. just gotta say ; u r teaching me a lot of stuff that i didnt knw. thank YOU!!!!!

This vid is exceptionally outstanding. Thank you very much. The resistance readings will help be diagnose my no water fill issue easily.

Well Done ! Watched several other videos where they only showed how to replace the unit. But yours had all the detail I was looking for. I wanted to know how the water fill is controlled in the icemaker - by simple timing, or using a sensor. Your video answered that and gave guidance on how to troubleshoot and adjust it... Thank You !

We hadn't used the icemaker often due to poor water taste. (Switched to copper feed line, but that's another story). I noticed that ice cubes were getting smaller. Once the new feed line was installed, the ice maker wouldn't restart. You were right- during the time of disuse, the fill tube froze solid- inside near the ice tray. The tube and control valve were covered in ice. I used my wife's hair dryer to melt it all away, adjusted the freezer a little warmer and all is well. Thanks!

thanks! I already ordered from your website, installed, and back making ice :) I finally actually read the descriptions... one for was in door which doesn't fit for my fridge... ordered the other one. Not sure I would have figured it out without your help... thanks!

Thank you. I cleaned the terminals and reduced the amount of water. You guys are great.

Great video! Hopefully soon, we'll have some ice! Thanks!!

Excellent video!! I was able to troubleshoot my icemaker and repair it for $0! One comment: the diagram shows the input voltage is 115V, but i measured mine at 15V