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The water is overflowing when filling the ice maker and running down to the bottom of freezer and freezing. Then when it thaws a little, it leaks out of the bottom of the freezer door.
I have replaced the ice maker and the water inlet valve on the back of of the fridge. It is still happening even after these 2 items have been replaced. Is there anything else I can try?
Last time I changed the filter, the water poured out of the filter housing. I am waiting on that part for replacement. Could it be causing the overflow in the freezer?
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My guess is you are looking in the wrong place. Take the lower back panel off in freezer side. You will see the coils and below them a drainage pan. In the center of pan is a drainage hole to drain water to pan under fridge when it goes in defrost. Sounds like hole is froze over or blocked & water is running out to bottom of freezer & out front of door. I usually put a screw driver over hole & heat it with a hair dryer to slowly melt ice & get the drain hole open. If you see a lot of ice in pan after you remove the back cover you can bet that hole is blocked. Hope this helps. Dave
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Ok. Replaced the inlet valve because water was overflowing ice maker and I could see where it was forming ice and dripping down onto the shelves and food..
Replaced ice maker because I was getting flakes of stuff in my ice.
Then there was still water/ice collecting on the bottom. So ,just as you described, I did use the screwdriver and heat gun to open up the drain and ice started melting and going thru the drain.
Now I am just waiting on the filter housing so water doesn't spray out when I need to change my filter. Then we should be good as new!
Thank you!
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