Whirlpool WP2220457 Refrigerator Ice Bin Coupling OEM Part

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Replaced Ice Bin Coupling.

Changed the couplings took about 5 minutes

The ice bin coupling halves and washer fell out when I looked to see what had happened. I also noticed significant frost on the underside of the ice bucket. When the replacement part arrived, I emptied the ice into a plastic bowl, and then used warm water to defrost the underside of the ice bucket. I then removed the screw, holding the auger while unscrewing. I put the washer (which I'd saved) and the new ice coupling on the ice tray and then put the screw back in, tightening it down. I put the ice bucket unit back in the fridge and added most of the ice from the plastic bowl back and tested the mechanism and it had returned to correct functionality.

There is a hexagonal shaft that connects the ice dispenser motor to an auger/chopper in the ice hopper. The end of the shaft had rounded-off. A new shaft was needed to fix the problem, but I realized that the real problem was that only about 1/8" of the shaft actually engaged the auger coupling at the top end. I needed to raise the shaft a little to make it better engage, so I dropped 4 #6 washers into the motor socket which raised the shaft about another 1/8", giving it about 1/4" engagement into the auger coupling at the top while maintaining about 1/2" engagement into the motor socket at the bottom.