After about three months of returning to my youth, filling ice cube trays, I decided to venture into the freezer and yank the old ice maker from its mounting. Since this was the third time this very ice maker had decided to stop functioning, it was time to get a replacement. I suspected the heating element was open and the motor was screaming trying to push the little frozen blocks of ice from their form, with distortion occurring. I ordered a replacement from this very company, received it in 1.7 days, and thought I could replace it in a matter of minutes. Well it was a matter of minutes, just too many, about 180 minutes. In my particular instance, the original had the connector on the front of the ice maker. The new had a cable that extended to the back of the ice maker, but sadly it would not fit the connector incoming from the rear of the refrigerator, which is why a second cable is included. That makes the cable quit long, too long to just hang down in the freezer. The directions say to push all of the cable out the back of the freezer. A frozen cable sheath prevented that. How does one bend a frozen cable, one could ask. The answer is obvious, get a hair dryer and heat it. Don't turn off the power cause that takes the challenge out of it,not to mention the frozen water in the freezer would melt possibly causing an electrical hazard. One would be surprised just how flexible the cable becomes with some good heat. Pushing the connector to the back of the freezer, per directions, just complicated the issue, because the connector then was positioned at the back of the new ice maker and there is no way it could be mounted. So using my mind I deduced the cable will not be able to left at the back of the freezer, but must extend several inches into the freezer. Took several heat cycles to get that distance correct, with nary an electrical shock to be discharged. That left trying to wad up the cable from the ice maker into the proper lengths to be able to get the cables connected without hanging down. Again many trial and error attempts. I could have solved a Rubik's cube faster, Of course that is all in a hurry before the cable sheath slowly becomes frozen in position again.
Now I have little blocks of ice spewing forth from said ice maker into the little white bucket below. Beats the 4 blue ice cube trays sitting on the bottom of the freezer.
All in all it is oakie dokie!!!