Ice Maker Not Making Ice / Whirlpool / What To Check and How To Fix - YouTube

Hey friends Allen Lee here with honest Lee handyman services in Sacramento, California

And today I got an issue with my fridge at my house

It's a whirlpool fridge and basically the automatic icemaker stopped making ice

So what I did is I did some research and found out that you could actually run some tests on this thing

And I got the new kit here. This is the deal that's actually broken

I'm going to show you guys exactly how I figured out that it was this that is the issue

But first let's open this up and I'll show you guys what I got going on in here

Okay, this probably looks familiar to you. This is the icemaker that is in your ware' pool

Refrigerator or freezer and now I'm going to show you guys how I actually diagnose it

So first off you're gonna want to take this cover off. So this is this is inside the freezer here

Just right right in there, you know

So you're gonna want to take this cover off and it's pretty I just got some prawns on you. Just pry it off

So the first thing that you can see here is there are a few different test ports

And you're going to want to find the test port the one that's labeled V and the one that's labeled L

so that right here and basically those

you're just going to want to take a

Paper clip and you're gonna want to touch those two together, obviously put a piece of tape at the end so you don't shock yourself

And then you you basically complete the circuit between the V and the L

And if you're if your water starts shooting into your ice maker

Which will shoot in right here if that happens

Then you know that your your fridge is fine. All that. Everything down below is fine, and it's actually this unit

That is at fault and you're gonna want to for me

I like to confirm that so I dug a little bit further to find out if this was actually the fault and

So what you're gonna do is you're gonna take off these three screws right here

One two and three and then this is actually the cover off of my old one here

So you're gonna pull just this cover off you see same thing

just pull it off and you're gonna want to look at the

Terminals and see what you got going on here

And once you got that once you got this off

you're gonna want to take a look at the terminals and if you could see this terminal right here is actually burnt and

that is actually that's what

The heating element on the bottom of this unit here so you can see here

There is actually a heating heating element that runs all along here

so after the ice after this fills up with water and it freezes this thing is activated to heat up and basically

Detach the ice from the ice tray and that's actually what this circuit does

So this exact circuit right here that's burnt out is actually the one that runs the heating element

now this is actually the mug one of the most common things that happens on these whirlpool ice makers is

the heating element goes bad

so that's kind of what what made me want to take a look at this and see if that was actually the issue and

what causes that is, you know this gets moisture behind it and

It basically just causes corrosion on this terminal and it ends up just burning out so it doesn't make connection anymore

Our ice maker went out

Maybe about four days ago

Took this out and then ordered the new part we found on the Amazon

I'll actually put a link to the to the part that you can get to replace this on Amazon

I'll have the link in the description below if you want to purchase it. And so that's the issue

so I'm going to go ahead and

Replace my old ice maker kit with this one

And it should work fine. So let's get to it

All right, there's my old one, it's pretty simple really there's there's a screw here screw there and a screw down here

And this comes off and put the new one on I will have to transfer this mount here to the new one

And then honestly unplug it pretty simple

So if you compare the old one on the bottom here with the new one

You're gonna see you're gonna have to transfer a few things

you're gonna have to transfer this mount here to this and then you're gonna want to unplug this wiring harness from here and

Plug it in to there to the new one

But then other than that the new one goes right in just like the old one came out

Okay, and then once you get your icemaker installed

you could test it actually to see if it works by taking the paperclip that you used to diagnose the old one and

plugging it in between the

V and the L to make sure you plug it in between the V and the L to make sure that the water is flowing

Obviously, there's a little tape on the end of it

So you don't shock yourself like we've talked about before but I did that here water flowed. Everything is great

The instructions do say that the icemaker kit has to cool down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit before it will kick in and start making ice

And the manufacturer says that that may take 2 to 24 hours before it starts

Making its first batch of ice and it also recommends that you should throw away your first two to three batches of ice

After this starts making it because there was some stagnant water sitting in the water lines

So you're gonna want to throw that away if it tastes bad and it doesn't taste bad. That is probably good to go

but anyway

So now that we got that in we're gonna put the cover on

Wait for it to cool down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit and then watch the ice start pouring in

so thank you all so much for tuning into this video and

Like this video leave me a comment in the comment section below and have a great day