ref. ice maker

01-12-2013, 04:03 PM	#1
sharon card Newbie   Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 1	ref. ice maker What is wrong with a ref. ice maker when you hear it trying to dump ice but not water is going into ice maker to make ice?

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01-12-2013, 05:14 PM	#2
fa_f3_20 Member   Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Huntsville, AL USA Posts: 196	ref. ice maker Probably the three most likely things are: 1. The water is off, or the water line has become crushed or kinked. 2. The tube that feeds water into the ice maker is frozen. 3. The water valve has failed. On most icemaker fridges, the water valve is somewhere near the bottom of the fridge, in the back.

01-12-2013, 05:20 PM	#3
joecaption Member   Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hartfield VA Posts: 18,178	ref. ice maker One more thing to check is if your using a saddle valve on the supply line, they plug up and leak all the time. Get rid if it before it does damage.

01-13-2013, 07:31 PM	#4
rkentzel Newbie   Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 17	ref. ice maker Ice maker arm in the up lock position or if its just the cubes wont eject could be the heater on the bottom of the i/m is open and the heat wont come on to release the cubes.