On Jan 14, 7:38*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
A couple other folks have good ideas. Other thought, is that the freezer
needs to be "some" coldness to allow the ice maker to work. Has your ice
cream gone soft?

Water valve has two valves -- so, if the water dispenser works, the ice
maker side can be broken.

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"B" wrote in message

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I have a GE side by side refrigerator/freezer that is about 6 years
old. *Yesterday the ice maker stopped working. *Usually I can hear
when it "calls" for water after dumping the ice cubes, but it is no
longer doing that. *It has just stopped making cubes. *Before I call
for service, I'd like to try to fix it myself, but I've never really
done anything like this. *Does anyone have any ideas what may be wrong
and what I could do to try and fix this myself? *I'm getting water
thru the water dispenser, it just seems that there is no water going
to the ice maker. *Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Knowing how they typically work could be helpful too.
The arm switch being low closes a switch that turns
it on. A motor starts rotating that moves the mechanism
and also moves a timing switch arrangement. The timing
switch turns on a heating element that melts the cubes
that are in the tray
enough so that they will slide out. When the motor moves
further it starts to push the cubes out. When they are out
it turns on the solenoid valve to let water in. When the
ice cubes get below freezing a temp sensor ends the
whole cycle. The tray is now full of cubes again.