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Hi! It’s Steve from PartSelect. Today, we are going to show you how to change the ice-maker
shut-off arm on your refrigerator. It’s a really easy job. All we are going to need
is a quarter-inch nut driver, a Phillip screwdriver and pair of needle nose pliers. Let me show
you how we do it. Now before we begin this repair, the first thing we will need to do
is to disconnect the power. So we will have to pull the refrigerator fair enough forward
where we can disconnect the chord from the receptacle. Next, we are going to open the
freezer. We are going to have to remove all of the items that are in the freezer. So we
will begin this model by lifting out the basket and we will set that aside. We will also remove
the two screws that secure the front to the rails, which is the short Phillip screw that
will allow us to lift up on the door and disengage the hooks at the back and then we can set
that somewhere safe. We can now push the rails back out of the way and we are going to slide
the upper drawer out and lift up on it and we will set that aside. Next, we will remove
the single screw from beneath the ice-maker and we are going to loosen two more that hold
it to the sidewall. You don’t need to remove those screws completely. Just loosen them
enough and we can lift up on the ice-maker. Disengage that from those two screws. You
can depress the locking tabs on the wire harness and disconnect it from the back wall. Now
we can set the ice-maker on a suitable work surface and we can change the shut-off arm.
Now, with the ice-maker on a suitable work surface, we will need to remove the cover
that is just held in place with plastic tabs that normally just point forward on and we
will pop it off. Normally, just pulling forward will pop it off. Once, you need to just get
it underneath the bottom of it there. There is a couple of slots and we will pry that
off. Now, with the cover removed, we are next going to remove two-third screws that are
recessed in the front. We will completely loosen both of those screws. Now we can pull
the ice-maker head away from the body of it and as we do that, we are going to disengage
the side rail and the center armature. We will need to loosen the wire harness a bit
to get the last bit out.
And once you pry those fair enough to remove that center armature that will allow you to
pop the rear fill cup out. Once you got that out, you can rotate that around and slide
it off at the end of the shut-off arm. If need be use your pliers to pop it through
and set that down. Now the front of the arm where it engages a cam inside the ice-maker
head; we will need to carefully pull that out and again you can use your pliers, pop
that out. Now to install the new shut-off arm, we will start by hooking it into the
fill cup first. So snap that onto the short bend on that shut-off arm and we are going
to engage the long bend in the front. You push it firmly into place. Next, we are going
to set that cup into position at the back. We need to put the hub portion of it through
the opening in the icemaker, flex that tab and hook that over the back. Next, we will
put the discharge shoot on the site. It has a couple of tabs on the front and that we
will hook the front of the ice maker and the tab at the back that would engage a little
notch at the back of the mold as well. So we need to make sure both of those tabs are
engaged properly. I am holding that to the mold. We will take the eject lever and it
has a D-shaped shaft on the front that will only fit one way into the ice-maker head.
So rotate it until it will slide into the ice-maker head. Then we can lower it down.
We will slowly push in that mold towards the head, line up the rear of that eject lever,
so that it fits through the opening in the cup. Make sure everything is lined up and
then we tighten those two Phillip screws again. Now, once you secured those two screws, just
check the operation of that shut-off arm. It should stay in the horizontal position,
which is the off position and it should float freely in the arm position.
Now we can put the cover back on the ice-maker head. We will note that there are four tabs
that will engage four slotted openings in that housing. So once you have got them up
over the top of them, just snap it into place and now we are ready to reinstall the ice-maker
in the refrigerator. We will begin by connecting the wire harness to the rear panel. We will
make sure that the foam tube gets securely into the fill cup. We will lift those slotted
portions on the side of the two quarter-inch screws and we will tighten those up. And then
we will put the remaining quarter-inch screw in the bottom. Next, we will reassemble the
drawer and slide the upper drawer into the channel and slipped up on this, pushing it
back. Then we will put the drawer front on. To do that we will pull the rails out, till
they are fully extended, and then we need to make sure that the two hooks on the end
around those slotted openings and then the tooth heads up closer will sit on the front
ones. Now this is brought down into place. We will reinstall the two Phillip screws.
This will secure the drawer front to the rails and then we can drop the lower basket into
place and then pull that basket forward until it locks into place. It was a D-tent on both
sides that match up with the tab on the basket. We are ready to plug the power back in and
our repair is complete. I told you it was an easy job. Thanks for watching and good
luck with your repair.