 Hi guys, this is Dan Giles here with Let's Fix It and I've got a little something for you that You're not going to find a whole lot on YouTube or any other video Source that you might have the new Frigidaire refrigerator If you have an ice maker issue first of all, this is the brand new model Frigidaire refrigerator that they came out with this year and as you can see there's no handle but they do have these little Cutout sections right here for the refrigerator and the freezer door on this stainless steel model Now this is not a cheap refrigerator not by any means but because they kept having issues with handles then They decided to go with a refrigerator door without handles I'm not really a fan of it, but There you go, but in changing the handles. They also did something else I want to go through the steps on how to remove this ice maker from this refrigerator and Show you all the little tricky details because everything has to clip and snap and unscrew and is just all kind of crazy Stuff that will drive you nuts if you don't know what you're looking for So here goes first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take this bucket out of place And it just slides out. That's not a big deal Now you'll see this cover right here covering up the ice maker and you're gonna figure out what no world's going on here How do I get that out? Well, that's kind of easy as well little tab right here Just kind of put your screwdriver on that and it just pushes it down a little bit where it will release it from One of these little posts that are on the roof of this freezer So now we got that cover off And here's Frigidaire's little surprise of an I don't know if they call it an upgrade or I'm thinking the mold ice makers were a lot better in the day But they decided to go back to a flex tray ice maker Insanity, total insanity So I'm gonna show you how to get this ice maker out of here So that you can replace it or do whatever it is you need to do Maybe take the back wall off. You got to get the ice maker out of the way. So that's a little trick to this All right, if we can focus in on the top of this ice maker Right back here Grab a screwdriver here you'll see right back here where this There's a post that holds this ice maker here and here and in order to get this out There's a little keeper right here a little plastic spring like spring-loaded piece of plastic that's sitting in front It's gonna be hard when I get this out. I'll show you what I'm talking about But what you need to do is that little spring put your screwdriver in behind it Push it out Kind of pry it out a little bit so that it gets out of the way of that retainer Just push the ice and pull the ice maker forward and it will come loose Now you got this harness here with this little plug back here. We'll get the ice maker out of the way All right So now we're zoomed in on the the harness that plugs into the back wall And you'll have to have a flat head screwdriver to go in here and push down Never so gently. There's kind of like three tabs inside of this That you'll need to push down I do know that 30 or so years ago. I Can't remember what exactly the manufacturer who that manufacturer was but they had an Ice maker that had this kind of a plastic mold tray And I remember replacing these things very often because the problem that you have with these this plastic is that Water gets in there and it eats away the lining of that Eye of this of this tray And over time that lining goes away and the ice cubes start to stick I remember that being a problem back in that day why frigid air came out with this design now I don't know. I think the old mold style that was actually encased in a Like a pewter base or whatever the ice makers were made out of with a heater Going across the bottom of it was definitely a lot better design in my book than going with a plastic flex tray That when this thing turns it actually twist it Like one's going right one's going left just like the old of it the old ice trays that you used to keep in your freezer You pull it out. You twist it to break all the ice loose from the mold. That's basically what this new ice maker is doing I'm not a fan. Not a fan at all. I Mean this thing probably weighs all of not even a pound. It's not a whole lot of substance to it But that's what frigid air is doing. I mean they've made some changes that I don't know are really for the good Another issue that I'm having with these refrigerators that if if the freezer section is not below 10 degrees You're not gonna get ice. That's just not gonna make ice. So, you know, that's a problem with it as well It's even going into dispenser models where a double door refrigerator is the the housing around The ice maker is a whole lot more elaborate than what I just showed you on the disconnection of ours or this one But the ice maker is the same. I guess it's going to be Remains to be seen how good it is that your water tube from the back of the refrigerator comes in and rest right there releases water into it and it has a little little Swimming pool slide way down to fill up that tray. What an amazing amazing piece of I don't know what I'm gonna go ahead and put this ice maker back in place and I'll show you all the steps of how I'm gonna do that All right, so here's the retainer here and here that the ice maker has to line up to You see it slips into this this part of the ice maker and this side of it has a little keyway That goes in here and slides in and locks it into place there So the first thing we'll do is go ahead and plug the harness back in And that's just going to snap in place just like so Now what you need to do is to make sure that you get that tube Under the fell section of the ice maker Little excerpt I just found on the internet about the flex tray ice maker I was telling you about there's a little break in the in the episode here And I'll put a picture of the ice maker right here the old whirlpool flex tray Says the whirlpool flex tray ice maker gets its name from the way it makes ice Well from a flex tray It basically puts water into a plastic ice cube tray freezes it tips it upside down and twist And dumps the cubes into a bin Much the same way you would do with the old manual type ice trays But here's the interesting part of this Whirlpool put most of its ice makers in Sears Kenmore refrigerators in the 70s So I said 30 something years ago They were eventually replaced by the more reliable compact ice makers But not before thousands of them were produced And there's many survivors out there that they're still having issues with The biggest is like I said the water Corroding that plastic liner And making the ice stick to the tray and then once it wants to once it tries to twist it out It won't release So then it goes back to normal position water fills back into it Then you get the overflow Eventually you get a freezer that's just nothing but a block of ice because The tray itself wouldn't release any cubes So there was nowhere for the water to go except in the freezer section Freezes on top of freezing on top of free you get the picture So anyway, they replaced the ice maker with a more reliable ice maker after Many years of trial and error So why frigid air would go back to that? I don't know. All right. So back to the video So that it definitely doesn't leak water and stuff all over your Your refrigerator You're gonna go ahead and line up everything Snapping into place and then just slide that ice maker right back in till it clicks You see that little clip right there That holds this ice maker in now And that's really simple because it's three sides So that's your your top, which is the bottom of this It's gonna line up to the three post And you're just gonna snap that into place Slides underneath this lip and everything is sealed in place So that's the new frigid air refrigerator and freezer Issues that i'm not really happy with I don't think that uh going backwards on an ice maker style is Actually the way to go with this those flex trays are not reliable I I think in less than a year you're gonna start to have issues with them. That's just my thoughts and i'm just going back on What memory serves me on what we had to go through back in the day With the old flex tray ice makers So that's it guys frigid air ice maker The brand new system that they've started using not really wild about it But what are you gonna do the manufacturers do what they're gonna do regardless of what you say So what i've got here is the new frigid air ice maker what comes in the box. I'll show you That piece that covers the front of the ice maker Just has those three clips or studs on this on the roof of the freezer that hold this in place Don't forget when you take this out. You got to stick a flathead screwdriver in here Just to pull that tab in a little bit enough to where you can slide it past the post top For the post the head of the post So that's the new one there This is the sidewall piece that the ice maker Slides into this is for a refrigerator that didn't come with an ice maker So you would need all these pieces to install that That's part of the kit as well Get the water valve and the water tubing I set that aside for a second That's the new ice bucket Get that Looks like I said if you have a refrigerator that you bought without that ice maker You would need all this stuff And then the last thing that came in the box was the actual ice maker itself And I want to pull this down to show you a few items on here This is the little tab right here that when you go to pull this ice maker out you want to pull this forward And then the other side of it It's just got a little keyway where the the stud goes in here and when it's mounted in place It just slides forward into that little notch right there So the whole thing just notches into place The only holding it in place is that keep right here And like I said, you'll pull that forward to get past the post And then the ice maker will slide out enough to where you can pull it on out This plug Is got This little piece right here that holds it in so you'll have to get a screwdriver inside of here to go across those That tab so that this pushes in So it releases off of the backside of this And you're able to unplug it from there So that's Frigidaire's ice maker Brand spanking new out of the box That's the head of it right there that's You can see it's not very big Not very big at all My cell phone's as big as the head on that ice maker So Am I actually I think my cell phone weighs as much as this ice maker does So that's Frigidaire's new refrigerator and the new flex tray ice maker that Know what I know from years past I'm still not a fan of that flex tray people have had issues with it forever So be sure to leave me a thumbs up if this video has helped you and leave me a comment down below If you've got this ice maker in your refrigerator If you like it, if you don't like it, let me know leave me a comment in the comment section below Also, subscribe to the channel. 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