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oh_stanley  
#1 Posted : Saturday, June 21, 2014 3:07:40 PM(UTC)
oh_stanley

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my ice maker's not working. everything first says to see if the ice maker fill line is frozen. how do I check it when it's all held within the ceiling of the freezer. I've attached to pictures which show the white plastic fill line going directly into the back of the freezer, and then the black rubber spigot where it comes out. I can pull out the black spigot a little, but am hesitant to keep yanking as I'm worried I'll break something. any advice?

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rschleicher  
#2 Posted : Monday, June 23, 2014 10:27:19 AM(UTC)
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One thing to do is simply to let your freezer (or whatever compartment the ice-maker is in) thaw out for a while, and then see if you get water flow into the ice-maker later.

You can also manually operate the ice-maker water-fill valve. If you have a Whirlpool (or related) refrigerator, the ice-maker water-fill valve can be operated by putting a jumper-wire between the N and V test points on the ice-maker control module. You can usually access this by removing the ice-bin, and then removing a snap-on cover that sits over the end of the ice-maker. The second you touch these two points together with the jumper wire, you should clearly hear the water-valve operating, and then water should be filling the ice-maker tray. If you don't hear anything, then possibly the water-valve itself is shot. If you hear a sound like the valve is operating, but no water comes into the tray, then it points to a blocked water line (frozen, or possibly some other form of blockage).

You don't want to do this if the ice-maker tray is already full, of course.

You can also try manually forcing an "ice harvest" cycle, by jumpering the H and T test points together. You want to connect them for several seconds, but then remove the jumper as the cycle starts. If nothing happens at all, then the ice-maker is probably bad. If the ice-maker mechanism goes through a cycle, then you can see if the cycle ends with a water-fill. But in any case, if the forced harvest seems to "work", but you weren't getting any automatic harvests, then it might be the thermostat within the ice-maker unit that is bad.

The jumper wire for either of the above tests is just a 6" or so length of 14-gauge wire (insulated), with a half-inch or so of insulation removed at both ends. Bent into a U-shape, you can insert the ends into the appropriate test points, being careful not to be contacting any bare-wire with your hands, fingers, etc. (or pliers, for that matter)
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