I'm still troubleshooting, but leaning towards having to replace the filter head housing. That looks like an expensive part -- is this a "can be done by owner" fix? For my fridge, WR17X12512 I'm seeing prices around $170-230 just for the part.
I am having issues with no water and no ice! Glad I watched this video because I can make things more complicated than they are. No time to fix it this second but thank you for the help! Looks simple!
Replaced my "MWF Manifold" today and saw an instant improvement to water flow. Previously I was getting extremely slow flow, with audible chattering coming from the system, and ice cubes were sometimes hollow. Now flow is good, silent, and full. Thanks for the quick demonstration!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video! I've looked for this fix for a few years and tried others suggested hacks that just didn't work. My kids and visitors have complained about how slow the water came out for so long and now I won't have to hear it anymore 🙂. People in forums blamed it on the filter itself and I tended to agree with them after trying so hard to figure out the problem. I am SO happy about it!! Sometimes, it's the little things in life that get us through. Thanks again!
Great video Greg. Even though your example fridge is different than ours, the mechanisms are virtually the same and can be applicable to other models as well!
Thank you for making the video Greg, my refrigerator looks like the one you have in your video. I wonder if this is a clue that would be helpful for you, the ice maker in ours works fine but the water dispenser seems to be frozen up. It was intermittent but for the last couple few days will not dispense water,I adjusted the temperatures to the highest points that it would allow for the refrigerator and the freezer and it seemed to help for a while. I also tried getting all of the ice out of the ice dispenser since it was full and we hadn't used very much for along time during these winter months. We had a power outage a couple of weeks ago for about 3 days and I think we got a bit of a reprieve for about a week. I think my next step maybe to get a thermometer and see if I can see what the actual internal temperature of the refrigerator is. And then maybe try a different brand of filter. It really seems weird that the ice maker still works but we're thankful to have it. It's better than nothing.
Some fridges have a different water valve and lines after the water filter, so if one side works the filter should be good, but yes the temos inside the fridge can cause it to freeze up and not come through the dispenser.
I love the video. Is there any benefit or risk to using compressed air to blow thought the lines when disconnected from the pump/solenoid? If there is a clog, would the compressed air blow that out of the line? If the issue appears to be the filter head pin, can you clean the pin to help free it from sticking? How much does a new filter head cost (generally)?
There shouldn't ever be anything stuck in the lune because it's after the pump. The problem is the pin has been held in for so long that everything gets waped inside the head housing. Generally the head housing in canada is about $200-$250
Why not just hit the water dispenser tab in the door and see how the flow is at the bottom of the door? If it's flowing well you can totally avoid the water filter assembly replacement. My GE fridge freezes up the water line in the door. It's not a function of water supply. I've taken a heat gun to the inside panel and it starts working fine...for a day or two. Then freezes up again. It's a factory insulation design issue in the door if you keep your freezer set near max cold setting. I bought a Brita filter for water. Problem solved. I'd rather have my freezer set near 0 degrees F.
90% of the time I go on a call for a ge fridge water not coming out or water barely coming out the water filter housing is the issue. I test the filter housing with a spacer to push in the tab further and see how much of a difference it makes. Water can freeze up in a lot of places in a fridge this is just the most common.
We've got very little water at the dispenser and almost no ice being made. Water supply line from the house is fine. However the line coming from the filter to the water valve has water coming through but it isn't high pressured at all. Just a slow trickle. I'm assuming there should be some decent pressure from that line from the filter?
I have no water coming through that bottom valve under the front of the fridge. What would need to be done with the coil setup on the inside of the fridge?
@thomasappliance - Is it possible to just run the water line from the wall straight to the valve assembly and bypass the filter part altogether? I got a unit like this one used, and I noticed when I got it that the 2 lines from the filter head housing were just taped up and hooked to nothing, and the valve had an extension hose coming from it. since there was no filter or bypass plug installed, I just hooked straight to the vale from the wall, ice cubes and door water worked great for 24 hours, now both have stopped working. I can hear the valve click when I depress the water dispenser. everything on the front panel also works. Is it probably just clogged/frozen somewhere?
I have never tried that but I think it could be a pressure issue, to go through the lines to the filter and through it back down to the valve the pressure would be much lower, maybe the valve doesn't like it direct. But I'm not entirely sure.
So on the fridge in the rental we just moved into, there was no water flow at all through the door and no ice being made. The filter wasn't installed, just a filter bypass plug. I got a filter and put it in, and for the first week everything worked great. Then I noticed the ice cubes were really small, and the water dispenser was down to a trickle, as you describe. The manual indicates the water should flow even with the bypass plug and no filter. I tried removing the filter, putting the bypass plug back in, but then like at first, there was zero water flow. I re-installed the filter, and I got the trickle and the small ice cubes again. Is there any point in trying another filter, even though the one I installed was brand new (it wasn't GE brand, I found it in a cabinet in the kitchen, but it was brand new and sealed). Thanks for any insight you can give.
@@Thomasappliance thanks for replying. I did purchase another filter and now it's working. Fingers crossed that will continue. But can you think of a reason why it wouldn't dispense water at all with the bypass plug in there? Seems odd unless I misunderstood that it can work without a filter if you have the bypass plug.
Sometimes the little ridges that push in the filter head actuator aren't big enough, it can be the difference between 2 filters too that are both new but only one is big enough ramps to push in the actuator.
I have the exact same unit. I have good pressure all the way to the fitting at the bottom front of fridge. However no water to dispenser. For the life of me I can’t figure it out after that 🤷🏼♂️
Can someone explain how to fix this then? He does a great job explaining, but then just says something is plugged/kinked in the door. He doesn't explain how to fix that!!
how do I take out the front panel ice maker ice dispenser shoot etcetera there is a electric warmer in there behind this to keep the water line warm keep it from freezing mine is frozen obviously the electric warmer is bad terrible terrible job
Thanks for watching, let me know if you had to replace your filter head housing, or if yours was a different issue.
I'm still troubleshooting, but leaning towards having to replace the filter head housing. That looks like an expensive part -- is this a "can be done by owner" fix? For my fridge, WR17X12512 I'm seeing prices around $170-230 just for the part.
@gregoryperron2003 yeah that's the pricing I'm getting as well.
I am having issues with no water and no ice! Glad I watched this video because I can make things more complicated than they are. No time to fix it this second but thank you for the help! Looks simple!
Yes no problem, hopefully it helps. You can do this!
Replaced my "MWF Manifold" today and saw an instant improvement to water flow. Previously I was getting extremely slow flow, with audible chattering coming from the system, and ice cubes were sometimes hollow. Now flow is good, silent, and full. Thanks for the quick demonstration!
Yes definitely I always start at the wall to check pressure for this exactly. Thanks for watching!!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video! I've looked for this fix for a few years and tried others suggested hacks that just didn't work. My kids and visitors have complained about how slow the water came out for so long and now I won't have to hear it anymore 🙂. People in forums blamed it on the filter itself and I tended to agree with them after trying so hard to figure out the problem. I am SO happy about it!! Sometimes, it's the little things in life that get us through. Thanks again!
you are very welcome, I'm glad it helped.
Great video Greg. Even though your example fridge is different than ours, the mechanisms are virtually the same and can be applicable to other models as well!
Thanks for watching and the kind words, hopefully it helped you out.
Thank you for making the video Greg, my refrigerator looks like the one you have in your video. I wonder if this is a clue that would be helpful for you, the ice maker in ours works fine but the water dispenser seems to be frozen up. It was intermittent but for the last couple few days will not dispense water,I adjusted the temperatures to the highest points that it would allow for the refrigerator and the freezer and it seemed to help for a while. I also tried getting all of the ice out of the ice dispenser since it was full and we hadn't used very much for along time during these winter months.
We had a power outage a couple of weeks ago for about 3 days and I think we got a bit of a reprieve for about a week. I think my next step maybe to get a thermometer and see if I can see what the actual internal temperature of the refrigerator is. And then maybe try a different brand of filter. It really seems weird that the ice maker still works but we're thankful to have it. It's better than nothing.
Some fridges have a different water valve and lines after the water filter, so if one side works the filter should be good, but yes the temos inside the fridge can cause it to freeze up and not come through the dispenser.
I love the video. Is there any benefit or risk to using compressed air to blow thought the lines when disconnected from the pump/solenoid? If there is a clog, would the compressed air blow that out of the line? If the issue appears to be the filter head pin, can you clean the pin to help free it from sticking? How much does a new filter head cost (generally)?
There shouldn't ever be anything stuck in the lune because it's after the pump. The problem is the pin has been held in for so long that everything gets waped inside the head housing. Generally the head housing in canada is about $200-$250
Why not just hit the water dispenser tab in the door and see how the flow is at the bottom of the door? If it's flowing well you can totally avoid the water filter assembly replacement. My GE fridge freezes up the water line in the door. It's not a function of water supply. I've taken a heat gun to the inside panel and it starts working fine...for a day or two. Then freezes up again. It's a factory insulation design issue in the door if you keep your freezer set near max cold setting. I bought a Brita filter for water. Problem solved. I'd rather have my freezer set near 0 degrees F.
90% of the time I go on a call for a ge fridge water not coming out or water barely coming out the water filter housing is the issue. I test the filter housing with a spacer to push in the tab further and see how much of a difference it makes. Water can freeze up in a lot of places in a fridge this is just the most common.
We've got very little water at the dispenser and almost no ice being made. Water supply line from the house is fine. However the line coming from the filter to the water valve has water coming through but it isn't high pressured at all. Just a slow trickle. I'm assuming there should be some decent pressure from that line from the filter?
Yes it should be the same pretty much as before the filter.
I have no water coming through that bottom valve under the front of the fridge. What would need to be done with the coil setup on the inside of the fridge?
Sometimes the coil gets frozen inside, make sure the fridge isn't too cold and defrost the tube, hopefully that helps.
@thomasappliance - Is it possible to just run the water line from the wall straight to the valve assembly and bypass the filter part altogether? I got a unit like this one used, and I noticed when I got it that the 2 lines from the filter head housing were just taped up and hooked to nothing, and the valve had an extension hose coming from it. since there was no filter or bypass plug installed, I just hooked straight to the vale from the wall, ice cubes and door water worked great for 24 hours, now both have stopped working. I can hear the valve click when I depress the water dispenser. everything on the front panel also works. Is it probably just clogged/frozen somewhere?
I have never tried that but I think it could be a pressure issue, to go through the lines to the filter and through it back down to the valve the pressure would be much lower, maybe the valve doesn't like it direct. But I'm not entirely sure.
If my fridge is fed by RO water can I just bypass the whole filter assembly?
There is a part you can get that is a plug that you can put in place of the filter if you didn't want the filter on there
So on the fridge in the rental we just moved into, there was no water flow at all through the door and no ice being made. The filter wasn't installed, just a filter bypass plug. I got a filter and put it in, and for the first week everything worked great. Then I noticed the ice cubes were really small, and the water dispenser was down to a trickle, as you describe. The manual indicates the water should flow even with the bypass plug and no filter. I tried removing the filter, putting the bypass plug back in, but then like at first, there was zero water flow. I re-installed the filter, and I got the trickle and the small ice cubes again. Is there any point in trying another filter, even though the one I installed was brand new (it wasn't GE brand, I found it in a cabinet in the kitchen, but it was brand new and sealed). Thanks for any insight you can give.
Thanks for watching, I've seen filters be crappy from brand new, but it doesn't happen often. Is the temp inside the fridge and freezer normal?
@@Thomasappliance thanks for replying. I did purchase another filter and now it's working. Fingers crossed that will continue. But can you think of a reason why it wouldn't dispense water at all with the bypass plug in there? Seems odd unless I misunderstood that it can work without a filter if you have the bypass plug.
Sometimes the little ridges that push in the filter head actuator aren't big enough, it can be the difference between 2 filters too that are both new but only one is big enough ramps to push in the actuator.
I have the exact same unit. I have good pressure all the way to the fitting at the bottom front of fridge. However no water to dispenser. For the life of me I can’t figure it out after that 🤷🏼♂️
It has to be something plugged in the door line, it takes a tight turn near the top where the dispenser is.
Can someone explain how to fix this then? He does a great job explaining, but then just says something is plugged/kinked in the door. He doesn't explain how to fix that!!
Some fridges the line can be changed, some there isn't a great way to fix it. I've heard of people disconnecting the line and blowing through.
how do I take out the front panel ice maker ice dispenser shoot etcetera there is a electric warmer in there behind this to keep the water line warm keep it from freezing mine is frozen obviously the electric warmer is bad terrible terrible job
Is the ice maker in the door?