Just an update for you. While I am awaiting the delivery of my spring, I gave something a try. I hung some weight on the shut off arm to take the place of the spring tension. I took about 4 small stainless nuts and ran a piece of fishing line through them with loops at both end. I slipped the loops over the arm and the cycle began. I works great as it returns the arm to the bottom position and allows the cycles to continue. After a day I had the bin full of ice to the point where the nuts hit the ice thus stopping the process.

Now that my icemaker and I have become one over the last few days, I noticed that when filling the trays I get about one or two overflow drips per cycle, building a small icecycle. I see the GE icemaker repair guide discusses removing the "separator" and running a bead of caulking on top of the first tray. What do you think of this idea. If you agree with that then could you tell me : do you have to take the icemaker out to remove the seperator (I'm assuming this is the part official named the stripper)? Is the idea of the caulking to seal between the separator and the mold unit. or is it to simply build a wall to serve as a dam. I wasn't sure if I would put the separator back in on top of the caulking right away, which would be to make a seal, or if I'm supposed to allow the silicone bead to dry so a dam is made before putting the separator back in.

O.K Thanks again. Just clarify for me: After I remove the ice maker, I'll take off the stripper and then run a bead of silicone caulking along the back and side of the first tray. Do I place the stripper back on right away so that the silicone caulking forms a gasket between the tray and the stripper, or do I allow the silcone to harden and act as a retaining dam, (sort of an extension of the back and side of the tray)? Is the repair a seal or a dam?

Well, I was almost home free. I got the new spring and installed it yesterday. Ovenight I made a bin full of ice -- no problems. Today I thought I would tackle the drip. I removed the ice maker and the stripper. Put the bead of silicone on and replaced the stripper. Re installed the ice maker and then a big problem. Afeter hearing a batch of ice drop in the bin I assumed all was o.k. When I returned a little while later there was a pool of water on the floor. The ice maker is going through about at least three maybe four cycles of adding water to the tray. Why is this happening? I shut it off by lifting the arm and I'm going to try to find answers in the guides. Hopefully I'll get a response from you. Thanks

The water valve may have been the leaking problem to start with.

Or something got out of place when you took the front of the icemaker off.

I had the cover off the module and this is what I observed. Starting with frozen cubes in the tray. The heater I assume activated and then the motor turned and pushed the frozen cubes into the bin. When the arm came to the bottom the water valve let in some water. I thought that the motor would stop at this point to let the water freeze, but the motor turned the gear around again and when the arm came back to the bottom more water was let in. This happened for four revolutions. The trays started overflowing by the third revolution. Is the motor supposed to make one revolution in each cycle, or more than one revolution?