Frigidaire 242253002 Refrigerator Water Inlet Valve OEM Part

My frig is a year and a half old, Frigidaire with french doors and freezer drawer. It has an upper ice maker for the door in the frig and a bottom ice maker in the freezer drawer. After noticing the flood, I shut off the water supply to the frig and cleaned up the mess. Didn't know if it was the water solenoid valve that stuck open or if the bottom ice maker got stuck calling for water. This frig has 4 solenoid valves and according to the schematic, two valves are active any time water is called for. There is a main valve that connects to the water line coming into the frig. This sends water to the filter in the frig and back to a manifold that feeds 3 more solenoid valves, one for the upper ice maker, one for the lower ice maker and one for the water dispenser in the door. In order to flow any water to any device, the main valve has to be on along with one of the other 3. Again, two valves have to be active for water to flow. Knowing this, the solenoid valves are less suspect on the flooding meaning two valves have to be stuck on. The flooding problem now points more to the ice maker which calls for water on a cyclic pattern. First off noticed the ice maker stopped making ice for a few days. Not knowing why I moved the bin sensor wire bar up and down to make sure it was loose and working. It was about 12 hours later that the flooding occurred. I replaced both the ice maker in my freezer and the water solenoid valves. Replacing both was simple. Ice maker needed one screw removed and two others that need to be loosened. The connecting wire is behind a plastic cover on the back of the freezer with 3 screws holding that on. The valve assembly has two screws. The nylon water tubes use quick connect locks on the assembly. Push the while ring in toward the valve and this releases the lock on the tube. Changed out my water line that feeds my frig. Now one other item that might have been the reason why the flooding. The water filters are expensive and the filter timer seems to run out much too quickly. So I didn't replace the filter when it should have. Water flow was still good in the water dispenser so I didn't think the filter caused the flooding. Another possible cause could have been water pressure. I read that the solenoid valves close under pressure. I haven't opened up my old ones yet to look for clues. My guess is the valves are spring-loaded and close regardless of pressure. If by chance the lower ice maker valve stayed on because of lack of pressure because of an old filter, this doesn't explain why the main valve would also stay on which sees 70-80 psi from my main water source. I will look for clues in the ice maker. I still have my old Kitchen-aid frig and had to replace the ice maker once. It uses the same type of ice maker that is in my Frigidaire. Everything is good now. Planning on putting in a drain under my frig that empties outside to keep the flooding from happening again. Had difficulty plugging the new ice maker back in. Ice had built up in the connector.

I took the hose loose and pressed the water dispenser and the water flowed through the tube that was toward the valve assembly. I ordered and replaced the valve assembly but still no water. I did hear the solenoid engaging that I did not hear with the old part. I saw that three of the tube were going into the back of the refrigerator and remembered that on the forum, a tech said the water line could be frozen. I unloaded the contents of the fridge and freezer into another refrigerator and let it set overnight unplugged. When I got up the next morning, I had water when I plugged it back in! Shortly thereafter, I had ice also.

I ordered a new value assembly hoping that it would fix the problem. I had doubts because the bottom ice maker was working and I was getting water from the door. Our fridge is 5 years old. But after replacing the value assembly, which was very simple, my top ice maker is working again.

The trouble shooting section narrowed it down to either the series of valves or the motherboard so I started with the easier of the two. The valves arrived in two days and after watching the Utube video of how to remove and replace them, the actual repair took 10-15 minutes tops! Immediately thereafter we had water and 2 hours later ice! Outstanding website and support! Thanks from small town Vermont.

Checked out water supply line first and it was corroded shut. Replace line and fitting then tried again still slow flow. Replaced water valve and now works like new. The old valve had sediment from corroded line in it.