GS2325GEKB Maytag Refrigerator - Instructions

Sorry for delay in writing. Part I ordered arrived two days ago and it was exactly what I needed. Knowing that there will be problems even with the smallest job I procrastinated starting. When I did start this morning I foud I had to completely remove the ice maker and disassemble it in order to install the water fill cup bracket. The challenge was reassembling the unit. Not hard for an experienced repairman but a challenge for layman. Everything is thing is back to gether now and power on cooling down the refrigerator. Won't know how successful it was until turn on water and ice is formed. If it works this saved $75 just to get a Sears repairman to come out and tell me what would be needed to fix the refrigerator and $1,000 if I had to buy a new refrigerator. Extremely satisfied with service I received. Thank you.

Removed food and shelving from freezer compartment. Removed 7... 1/4" hex head screws holding back wall of freezer compartment. Discovered evaporator coils completely frozen over thereby restricting air flow to refrigerator compartment. Generally the 2 least most expensive components that can cause this are the defrost thermostat or the defrost heater coil. Both are in easy reach once coils are exposed. First unplugged refrigerator from wall. Then unplugged heater coil and checked with Ohm Meter. approximately 30+ ohms which meant heater coil was good. cut both wires going to the defrost thermostat and checked for continuity. since coils were still frozen over ohm meter should have shown continuity, it did not. indicating that defrost thermostat was an open circuit which would never allow defrost heater to energize. Removed defrost thermostat by simply unclipping it from evaporator coil. warmed to room temperature and observed it as still an open circuit. Re froze it using liquid Butane fuel that I use to fill my lighters, Thermostat remained open. ordered mew part for overnight delivery and defrosted coils with a hair dryer so as to have freezer and fridge operational until next day. Thermostat arrived by 10 AM the following morning. Once again removed back panel from freezer wall and installed Thermostat using wire nuts and sealed connections with silicone sealant. Replaced back panel... replaced all shelves and food. Plugged fridge back in and all is again happy in refrigerator land. A 32 dollar part even adding the 24 dollar overnight shipping charge saved me the expense of at the very least a 2 or 3 hundred dollar service call. Parts select lived up to their end of the deal admirably by having the part in stock and shipping it promptly. I could not be happier.

Thought I needed a new filter. Did not solve the problem. I returned the filter to partselect as per instructions. Will order from partselect when I need parts.

Easy...

It took less that 30 seconds to pop out the old one and less that 30 seconds to install the new one.

Looked up issue on the internet and found that other folks had the same problem and said it was probably the compressor starter. This is actually two parts, a capacitor and a capacitor relay. Wasn't sure which was causing the problem so made sure I ordered the part number which inscluded both. One plugs into the other. Easy enough to just unplug the parts from the side of the compressor. Plugged in the new parts and compressor kicked on. Evrything working as normal. No one locally had parts in stock so overnighted from Partselect.

As per instructions to replace filter

I used a knife blade to slip under the edge of old switch to pray it out of the hole it was inserted into, switched the wires and replaced the new switch into the same hole. It took about five minutes!

The problem had occurred twice before and the metal auger could no longer be reliably forced back into alignment with its end cap. It was time for a replacement. I opted to replace the entire auger assembly including the crusher blade - a total of three individual parts in this assembly. With the Amana model and serial number in hand, I logged into PartSelect and found the ice maker part(s) in the fridge schematic diagram. I ordered the assembly which arrived early. It is easy to disassemble. Remove the ice drawer from the freezer, minus the ice, and place it upside down on a work surface. You only have to remove four screws; the two on the front bottom of the ice drawer and the two screws holding the little L-shaped brackets that receive those two bottom screws. Tip: To avoid any confusion during reassembly, just take a picture of each step of your disassembly. You can do it Noonan.

I snapped the cover plate to the filter open. Pulled the filter down and twisted counter clock wise to take filter out. I installed the new filter in by inserting the filter and tuning clock wise to secure the filter. I flushed the water for about two minutes and then allowed it to be put back into service.