Frigidaire 218976409 Water Tube OEM Part

Changed the Frigidaire Icemaker Fill Tube Part # 241796405 (AP5671747) about a week ago and so far the Frigidaire Refrigerator seems to work fine. Did not use other ordered parts. Recently ice formed around internal evaporator fan and it started making loud noise when then fan and compressor, etc were running. A long winded history noted below if interested: I have been fighting with this Frigidaire Refrigerator for about 3 to 4 years, started out with the evaporator fan making noise when ice would buildup. Called out local technician was really not much help, part of the problem was the refrigerator noise got so loud that we had to turn the refrigerator off, manually defrost it and then wait three or so days for the repair technician to show up. By that time the freezer was defrosted and we could restart it and it worked fine for a while. Told him of the problem and he seemed to be guessing that the issue was the defrost thermostat and/or the electronic control board. Decided not to repair the thing and see what happened, refrigerator worked fine for a while then started making fan noise again. Searched the Internet and found information on AppliancePartsPros on likely causes and videos on how to change the part. Ordered Defrost Thermostat and changed it and refrigerator worked fine for about 2 to 3 years, then fan noise started again. Also had issues with ice buildup in bottom of the freezer compartment that stopped up the drain hose. Took the bottom sheet metal panel off and evaporator coil looked fine, so defrost cycle must have been working. Noticed trail of ice on backside of freezer compartment with ice buildup around the evaporator fan housing; assumed leakage from ice maker or fill tube etc. Manually defrosted refrigerator and turned ice maker off for a week and no fan noise occurred. Weeks before ice was building up about every two to three days and initiating the electronic control board to start the defrost cycle did not seem to help. Turned refrigerator off and would take everything out of the freezer, put food in ice chests and manually defrost the freezer compartment using a circulating fan to blow air in the freezer compartment. Note I learned early on to leave everything in refrigerator compartment and leave the door closed while manually defrosting the freezer compartment, which took about two hours. Not sure what was wrong with the ice maker fill tube the original tube seemed fine unless the compression nut somehow loosened and was squirting water into the freezer compartment, but I never noticed any water on the outside of the refrigerator. Somehow maybe the fill tube got twisted and was dripping water on the inside backside of the freezer compartment, but visually inspecting the fill tube it seemed to be mounted in the right position. The replacement fill tube has a slight change in design where it seems to have a larger bump to keep it from turning more when the water tubing compression nut is tightened when installing the fill tube.

The tube running through the freezer door was leaking so I ordered a new one and connector carefully removed trim, took out the six screws holding the control mod and dispenser, removed old hose inserted new one put on new connector put everything back, walla no more water on floor.

Frigidaire Professional Series poured water in it and it made ice, did this a couple times just to know it worked, my refrigerator was manufactured 4 of 2005 so it is getting older, I still had water in the door but no ice, because it appeared it was not getting water, so I bought a new water valve and installed it, nothing to it, shut the water supply off and removed the old valve, the new valve doesn't have the compression fittings BUT all you do is take a sharp knife and cut the feral off and stick right in the new valve, push in real good, it has a connection like the shark bite fittings, and they don't leak, took about 10 minutes and I was done, well like another review I read somewhere it took a couple days to start making ice, I even poured water in it one time, then out of the blue it started making ice, make sure if your machine has a on/off switch on the ice maker it is ON, I checked everything I could before I bought the water valve, so glad I did, wife is happy again

Removed and replaced water dispenser tube.

After a lot of research, we initially changed out the inlet valve. When that didn't fix the issue, we went back to researching, and saw that it could be the freezer door switch. So we replaced that as well. Again this did not solve our issue. Back to researching. I then came across AppliancePartsPros.com! And I found so many other options of what it could be. I started with the water tube and after a bit of a struggle I was finally able to get it in and the water is dispensing again! Thanks, APP for having the guides to help me to repair my fridge.