My Maytag side by side MSD2758DRW ice maker no longer makes ice. The arm was having trouble "pushing" the cubes out awhile back, so I disconnected the icemaker power coupling. I tried plugging it back in to do some troubleshooting, and the arm just keeps going around and around. No water comes to fill the tray. The water dispenser in the door works fine. Any ideas?
Hi,
If the ice maker no longer make ice, check the following.
Check to see whether the ice maker has been turned
off. Here's how to check. Look for a wire along the right side of the
ice maker that looks a bit like a coat hanger. If this wire is in the
raised position, the ice maker is turned off. On some units you simply
lower the wire to the down position to turn the ice maker on.
On others,
you lower a small red plastic lever to lower the wire. If the wire is
in the proper position check the freezer temperature, it should be
between 0-8 degrees Fahranheit. If it is warmer than 10-12 degrees, the
ice maker may not produce any ice.
Check your door seals and thermostat,
repair/replace as necessary.
Thanks
First thing to do is check that your ice maker fill tube in the back of your refrigerator is not frozen. The fill tube will freeze frozen solid and stop the water flow to the ice maker. Use a blow dryer (hair dryer) to melt the ice from the tube. The fill tube can also continue to freeze up from a leaky water inlet valve. Click on the link below to read more:
http://www.applianceblog.com/mainforums/maytag-magic-chef-admiral-jenn-air/16502-fixed-maytag-msd2756aeb-ice-maker-problems-no-water.html
Thanks, I forgot to mention that I previously had problems with the fill tube in the past, so that was the first thing I tried. I checked the fill tube to make sure it was not frozen, and even ran the blow dryer.
It seemed that the push arm was having trouble pushing the ice out, so when I used the blow dryer on the fill tube, it also seems to have warmed up the ice tray enough so that it was able to cycle once more. However, this was months ago, and I never got it to fill again.
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If the water dispenser works fine, but there's no water comes in to fill the tray, then I could say that there is NO problem with the water valve and the solenoid. You have to check the water supply line from the valve to the ice maker. Be sure that the water supply line is not kinked behind or beneath the refrigerator (1/4-inch copper tubing is much better than plastic fill line).
There's a possibility that the water supply line freeze up. And the line is clog, that's why there's no water coming in to the ice maker.
Try to defrost the fridge, locate the water supply line going to the ice maker. Use a hair blower and try to heat up the tube. This will melt the ice that's in the tube.
Thank you and good luck!
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Additional info: I previously had problems with the fill tube in the past, so that was the first thing I tried. I checked the fill tube to make sure it was not frozen, and even ran the blow dryer to melt anything that might have been frozen in the fill tube.
In addition, it seemed that the push arm was having trouble pushing the ice out, so when I used the blow dryer on the fill tube, it also seems to have warmed up the ice tray enough so that it was able to cycle once more. However, this was months ago, and I never got it to fill again.
That was useless. The ice dispenser is not the issue, the ice MAKER is.
To review:
-Ice maker is not making ice.
-No water is going into ice maker.
-Fill tube is not clogged
-If ice maker is plugged in, the roatating arm of the ice MAKER (not dispenser) keeps rotating. For lack of a better term, let's call it the rotating "ice pusher" that dispenses the ice into the bin.
I'm leaning towards just buying another icemaker and installing it, but wondering if the issue is with the thermostat or another part.
Does anyone read the comments? I already used a blow dryer on the fill tube.
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