Hello,

I have a Whirlpool side by side with water and ice. One of the things
the tell you to check is the pump. The water dispenser works fine so
I was wondering if someone could tell me if the the ice maker and
water dispenser use the same pump?

Thanks in advance,
V

"V" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have a Whirlpool side by side with water and ice. One of the things
the tell you to check is the pump. The water dispenser works fine so
I was wondering if someone could tell me if the the ice maker and
water dispenser use the same pump?

Thanks in advance,
V

Pump? There is a big pump down at the water department so, yes, they do use
the same one.

Check out www.repairclinic.com or www.applianceaid.com for some
troubleshooting ideas. Ice makers are the most frequent repair on
refrigerators, but I sure like having one. They are easy to replace if that
is what you need. Be sure the lever is in proper position. There is a
heater, a small motor, a fill valve. Sometimes the fill tube get frozen and
just needs to be thawed and cleaned out and it will start up OK.

On Mon 06 Oct 2008 07:31:47p, Edwin Pawlowski told us...


"V" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I have a Whirlpool side by side with water and ice. One of the things
the tell you to check is the pump. The water dispenser works fine so
I was wondering if someone could tell me if the the ice maker and
water dispenser use the same pump?

Thanks in advance,
V

Pump? There is a big pump down at the water department so, yes, they do
use the same one.

Check out www.repairclinic.com or www.applianceaid.com for some
troubleshooting ideas. Ice makers are the most frequent repair on
refrigerators, but I sure like having one. They are easy to replace if
that is what you need. Be sure the lever is in proper position. There
is a heater, a small motor, a fill valve. Sometimes the fill tube get
frozen and just needs to be thawed and cleaned out and it will start up
OK.

Ed, I totally agree. And, I have never failed to have some kind of problem
with side-by-side units with ice-thru-the-door and water dispensers,
whereas I have absolutely never had a problem with an ice maker in a top
freezer model which just has an ice bin. I've never figured out the
correlation of problems with the SBS, as opposed to none with top freezer.
Obviously, there is a lot more to the delivery mechanism in the SBS, but
the unit which produces the ice in both is virtually identical, yet the
problem was always with the ice maker itself, not the delivery system.

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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

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Sometimes the fill tube get frozen and
just needs to be thawed and cleaned out and it will start up OK.

Since that's so common and so easy to fix- it is where I would start.
Unplug the frig- thaw for a few hours and try again.

If that fails, a universal ice maker is cheap enough. [$70-100]

Jim

On Mon 06 Oct 2008 11:06:05p, told us...

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:38:00 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

Ed, I totally agree. And, I have never failed to have some kind of
problem with side-by-side units with ice-thru-the-door and water
dispensers, whereas I have absolutely never had a problem with an ice
maker in a top freezer model which just has an ice bin. I've never
figured out the correlation of problems with the SBS, as opposed to none
with top freezer. Obviously, there is a lot more to the delivery
mechanism in the SBS, but the unit which produces the ice in both is
virtually identical, yet the problem was always with the ice maker
itself, not the delivery system.

--

I suspect it has to do with the hole in the door letting in heat and
moisture that build up ice in the mechanism and break it.

You could very well be right about that.

I have had a few rounds with Whirlpool icemakers recently and this guy
has the best site to figure out what is going on

In three previous homes we've had a Frigidaire, Amana, and Whirlpool side-
by-sides, and the only reason we chose SBS's was because of filling up the
much wider space allocated for the fridge. Each of those had ice-maker
problems.

Our present fridge is a Whirlpool top-freezer model, and while it is only
two years old, we have never once had any type of problem with the ice
maker.

http://fixitnow.com/appliantology/typeoicemaker.htm

Thanks for the link!

All of mine were fixed with a motor plate assembly (the brown plastic
thing under the white square cover (4 screws and slip out the wire
bail)

Yes, it's an easy fix. At least they made it convenient. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Mon 06 Oct 2008 11:06:05p, told us...

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:38:00 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

Ed, I totally agree. And, I have never failed to have some kind of
problem with side-by-side units with ice-thru-the-door and water
dispensers, whereas I have absolutely never had a problem with an ice
maker in a top freezer model which just has an ice bin. I've never
figured out the correlation of problems with the SBS, as opposed to none
with top freezer. Obviously, there is a lot more to the delivery
mechanism in the SBS, but the unit which produces the ice in both is
virtually identical, yet the problem was always with the ice maker
itself, not the delivery system.

--

I suspect it has to do with the hole in the door letting in heat and
moisture that build up ice in the mechanism and break it.

You could very well be right about that.

I have had a few rounds with Whirlpool icemakers recently and this guy
has the best site to figure out what is going on

In three previous homes we've had a Frigidaire, Amana, and Whirlpool side-
by-sides, and the only reason we chose SBS's was because of filling up the
much wider space allocated for the fridge. Each of those had ice-maker
problems.

Our present fridge is a Whirlpool top-freezer model, and while it is only
two years old, we have never once had any type of problem with the ice
maker.


My SBS GE Profile Arctica is 7 or 8 years old and has never had an ice
maker problem. I use the ice dispenser fairly frequently here in TX too.

On Tue 07 Oct 2008 07:11:34a, Pete C. told us...


Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Mon 06 Oct 2008 11:06:05p, told us...

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:38:00 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

Ed, I totally agree. And, I have never failed to have some kind of
problem with side-by-side units with ice-thru-the-door and water
dispensers, whereas I have absolutely never had a problem with an ice
maker in a top freezer model which just has an ice bin. I've never
figured out the correlation of problems with the SBS, as opposed to
none
with top freezer. Obviously, there is a lot more to the delivery
mechanism in the SBS, but the unit which produces the ice in both is
virtually identical, yet the problem was always with the ice maker
itself, not the delivery system.

--

I suspect it has to do with the hole in the door letting in heat and
moisture that build up ice in the mechanism and break it.

You could very well be right about that.

I have had a few rounds with Whirlpool icemakers recently and this guy
has the best site to figure out what is going on

In three previous homes we've had a Frigidaire, Amana, and Whirlpool
side-
by-sides, and the only reason we chose SBS's was because of filling up
the
much wider space allocated for the fridge. Each of those had ice-maker
problems.

Our present fridge is a Whirlpool top-freezer model, and while it is
only
two years old, we have never once had any type of problem with the ice
maker.


My SBS GE Profile Arctica is 7 or 8 years old and has never had an ice
maker problem. I use the ice dispenser fairly frequently here in TX too.


Maybe you got lucky, Pete. :-)

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"Pete C." wrote in message

My SBS GE Profile Arctica is 7 or 8 years old and has never had an ice
maker problem. I use the ice dispenser fairly frequently here in TX too.

I got 10 fromthe first one, five from the next.