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Thanks Brad that will save me a lot of money.

Hi, my ice maker over fills the tray so that it makes a solid layer of ice across the top. The ice is too thick and the twisting motion is not enough to release the cubes. Any ideas?

My icemaker is making a banging noise bang bang bang bang for about a minute. Any ideas anybody

My Motor works fine when disengaged but when I reengage the overhead door it makes that noise and won't open. Any Suggestions?

My icemaker makes ice, drops it down like it is suppose to, and is not clogged at the bottom. However, when I push on the lever to get ice, the motor does not turn. on. It turns on to give me water. Have I a defective switch or motor. The unit is 6 plus years old.

Well, you definitely earned my subscription! I've had my LG fridge for probably 5 years now and I've had the upper ice maker get stuck a handful of times now. I've always been able to fix it by removing it and letting it thaw out or I've even used the hair dryer trick a couple times. Every time in the past this has worked in conjunction with the reset button and I had the ice maker up and running in no time. But this latest time it was different. I was almost convinced the motor was shot! Then I saw this video with the gear box. So, I took it out much like you did and opened up the gear box. Nothing was obvious at first and it didn't look like anything was wrong with the gears and the spring appeared to be functioning properly. But to be honest, there is a lot jammed in that little gear box so it is really hard to see. But I did notice one thing when I removed the big gear that actually turns the ice tray... as soon as I removed it the little lever that attaches to one end of the spring moved a little to the fully "closed" position. I believe this little lever controls the whole operation of dumping the tray. So, I checked the rest of the gears to make sure they were seated properly and then made sure the spring, levers, gears would work properly together and all looked good. I put it back together and plugged it in and boom it was working again!! Thanks a lot for your assistance with this one! It saved me a couple hundred bucks for now!

Thanks for the tip, I hope this fixes my problem. Lucklily I have a backup till i replace the capacitor, I alctually like the backup as its much quieter opening and closing "Nana The Mother In-Law" She does a great job opening an closing it.

Thanks! You just saved me an hour of fooling around trying to get the blades off. Who knew about the 3 second thing to position the blades!

G'day mate. Any chance you know where to source the drive gear from the ice bucket itself? Mine is split into 4 pieces. The mechanism in the door with the metal fitting spins, but nothing in the ice box itself moves. One gear is shattered, and the replacement for the whole thing is $150+.

That was exactly the problem and fix for my door. $20 bucks for a capacitor vs $200 for a new opener. Nicely done!

We had the same problem.. same noise and ordered the part.. unfortunately, it did not fix the problem.. so I’m totally lost now

Fricking junk LG

Thanks for saving me tons of money on my car insura.... I mean my repair bill.

Thanks for the video. What if the ice dispenser works fine but makes a loud popping noise immediately after dispensing ice and also randomly makes the popping noise? TIA

My 1/2 HP Genie made the same noise. Looking at capacitor I don't seen anything obviously wrong. When I disconnect the screw drive, the motor DOES run. The collar between the motor and screw drive looks fine but replaced that anyway. Same hum when connected. Can a bad capacitor cause motor to not work under load? If not capacitor I'm wondering if there iis binding of the screw drive (dirt in grease or other)

Thanks! The reset button is all we needed!

Very informative! Our’s appears to have a broken piece of white plastic in the square plastic hole in the back where the metal lever fits into. We are getting crushed ice only. Do you have any suggestions for that?

This was thorough and had all the info I needed. Thanks for telling me the filter number. Much better than other podcasts.

Thank you so much! This worked and I avoided a service call fee and potentially an overpriced repair and finding other things that “should be replaced”.

I have a newer LG fridge and opened the gear box and everything looked fine. I still took the gears out and put them back but it’s still doing the same thing. It will go up for a half a second and then down for a half second and then stop. It really seemed like something was binding up. Damn thing is two years old, I guess I’m ordering a new ice maker. They’re only $100 but I was hoping this was the issue.

Those ice makers are just trash, had to replace one. I guess it'll last a couple of years.

Hi Brad - I'm Nancy and I have the same unit. For some reason when the ice maker is dumping the ice, it's like it gets off the track and makes a loud clicking sound because it's off track. I've taken the unit off, and think the problem might be where the motor is. I haven't opened up the motor part, but is that a spring that maybe has come loose that maybe I have to reconnect inside that housing?

Thank you SIR!

lol, you didn't fix anything. You took it apart and put it back together. Unless I missed something, it looks like all your icemaker needed was a defrost.

Thank you! They wanted me to replace my entire unit! I appreciate you!

Maybe just a hair dryer. Warm it all up ?????????

Thank you! Didn't know that there was a reset button.

If it was just froze up. I would have just removed ice make and left it upside down in the sink overnight to thaw and drain.

Mine does not have a reset button. 2017 model. Any suggestions?

Very helpful. Thanks.

Dang! I'm getting sea sick.

awful idea when an iron exists

tried this doesn’t work well wouldn’t recommend to others

Invest in a tripod.

those transitions are fire 🔥 we not gonna talk about those?

Watched both videos because mine is making a loud clicking noise when the ice tray is turning over and trying to dump the ice. I have disassembled & reassembled the ice maker and checked the gears. Removed and put back in to make sure they weren't misaligned. It worked for the next 24 hours BUT, the ice is still not dumping out from the tray. And when it does, it's dumping chunks and shards of ice like sheets of glass, if you will. After 24 hours, the clicking has returned. I also just tried to hit the reset button and I saw the ice tray flip over and try to dump ice that has still been stuck in it for days (after it started clicking I turned off the ice maker cause the noise made me & my dog crazy). Hoping the reset will do the trick but have to wait and see. If it does not, what is my next option, in your opinion? And I swear I saw you had posted the part needed to replace the whole ice maker mechanism but now I can't find the link. Maybe I saw it on another video. Will keep looking for that.

Thanks for the first and this second video! Mine works great when the reset button is pushed, so I think my gears are all good. But it wont dump or start or try to dump unless I press the reset button, after a bunch of tries and several days now. Any ideas for how to fix that ?

I have this same ice maker in my LG french door fridge. It makes one batch of ice, but it won't even try to harvest it unless i push the reset button. Then it harvests that one batch, and fills up to make the next batch, but will never harvest even if I leave it alone for 2 days. It's cold enough and plenty of water supply. Any advice for this ?? (I've been searching the internet and YT for hours and not found this particular issue). Thanks

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I have an LG fridge and noticed this knocking sound in the freezer ice maker. It makes ice just fine but, I can't figure out why its making that sound. Does anyone know what might be going on? I just have it turned off since, it can be really annoying and, sometimes it wont stop.

Did you have to discharge the capacitor since they can hold a charge?

I didn't know there was a reset button, that fixed ours, lol.

What A Job Why Not Just Leave It Overnight and Wait for It To MELT Instead Then POUR IT OUT That Would Be So Much Easier.

Easy just buy scissors

My ice maker is working but not making ice is my problem. I turned off the fridge for over 8 hours two times and it still shows 1F E but I can’t figure out why because it’s not even making ice

Just iron it my friends

Dry it and see if it stays straight.

It won’t stay and you just created mold in your rug

Sir did you know just water would do the same thing

I have the same fridge, purchased 2 years ago. It makes ice but will not dump. I have to dump manually. Could this be a sensor that's dirty or blocked?