Ge WR17X10734 Refrigerator Water Tank And Tube Assembly OEM Part

Installing the tank went quickly. Removed the water filter from the upper compartment to stop water flow to the tank. Had to remove the two lower drawers (they tilt out of their sliding frames). There is a glass shelf that should be pulled out - it slides out via two notches in the front frame. The water tank is behind a white metal cover held by 4 screws. Keep track of all of the parts including the lip seals from the shelf. I used two Watts 5/15x5/16 couplers from Lowes for the connections. I cut the existing tubes as high as possible with a sharp pair of scissors to give me some working length. Don't mix them up - mark them L and R with a Sharpie to distinguish them. Removed the old tank by unscrewing two screws, Installed new tank initially leaving its tubes at full length. I routed the tube on the right side of the tank below the tank and back over the top, connecting it to the L tube from the fridge. I then routed the 2nd tube from the top of the tank in a circle so that it met the R tube from the fridge in a straight line. The circular routing keeps the tubes and couplers straight so there's no side force on the coupler seal that might cause a leak. Installed the filter to fill water and used the dispenser to get water pumped through the tubes and tank to confirm that there were no leaks. Reinstalled the cover, shelf, and drawers. and confirmed that the dispenser and ice maker worked.

I looked the part up on the web and ordered it from appliance parts pros. I could not believe how fast I got it. Ordered it that evening and got it the next day at 11:30am. The fastest service ever. I did not pay for over night and I still got it super fast. Just amazed at their service. I'm now a customer for life. I put it on in 15 minutes and it's working great. Yeah water on the door again.

I purchased a replacement water valve assembly and a replacement water reservoir from AppliancePartsPros and researched some online videos to learn how to replace both these items, including all new water tubing. In the online process, I utilized "how-to" videos from AppliancePartsPros, too. Installing the water reservoir proved the most tricky, mostly because it was tricky feeding the tubing under the refrigerator. By comparison, installing the valve assembly and running new tubing for it was actually pretty easy. From start to finish, including clean-up, the whole process took me about 2 hours. And I was the classic first-timer, never-done-this-before do-it-yourselfer. I don't know what a repair call would have cost, by probably saved myself $100 - $200 by doing it myself. Woo hoo!

I found the part in AppliancePartsPros, ordered. It came superfast and it was identical to the one broken. I wish the website should mentioned that I also needed the 5/16 x 5/16 tubing connectors. I will buy from them again.

Pulled out the old and replaced it with a new one from applianceparts.com.