The auger is driven by a motor mounted behind the bin with a set of drive forks on the gear box shaft.
Whirlpool side by side refrigerator ice maker not dispensing ice.
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To determine if the door switch is defective use a multimeter to test it for continuity.
This method is to fix one.
My whirlpool refrigerator ice maker is not dispensing ice.
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Not making ice the ice maker is turned off some ice makers have a switch some have metal arms others have plastic paddles.
My whirlpool refrigerator ice maker is not dispensing ice.
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When it is not dispensing correctly which is more and more often now it opens and then immediately shuts the door and does not engage the ice maker at all.
We have kenmore bottom drawer refrigerator ice dispesner that is intermittently not dispensing ice.
If the door switch does not have continuity when activated replace it.
There are three reasons why the ice dispenser will not work even if the water dispenser is working.
It has a loud click when it opens or closes the ice flapper door.
In reference to your whirlpool refrigerator.
No water supply to the refrigerator.
If you don t get any response from the diagnostic test wait 5 minutes then unplug the refrigerator for 10 seconds to reset the ice maker control board and try again.
The door switch turns off the ice and water dispenser when the refrigerator door is open.
How to fix your ge refrigerator if it is not dispensing ice.
The ice bucket auger is located in the ice bin and when the dispenser is activated will rotate to pull the ice forward to the outlet chute of the bin.
There are a few reasons why a refrigerator would stop dispensing ice.
The gear box turns very slowly but has lots of power to push the ice.
Please check the list below.
01 dispenser control board.
The dispenser control board governs most of the functions of the dispenser system.