Ge WR02X11330 Refrigerator Water Line Union Connector OEM Part

We noticed a puddle of water in front of the fridge a couple of months ago-dried the floor up both times and thought someone had dropped ice-or spilled water. A couple of weeks ago there was water dripping through the dropped tile ceiling in the basement. I shut off the water for the water supply to the fridge at the copper pipe in the basement and removed some of the tiles which felt a little damp. It still dripped all day. When my spouse came home he pulled down more of the tiles. It was as if Niagara Falls was coming into my basement. Evidently the leak had accumulated in the cold air return-reached capacity-overflowed through the duct work and finally saturated the fiberglass on the ceiling tiles. After that was cleaned up we attempted to roll out the fridge upstairs believing this was the cause. It took three of us (thanks to a great neighbor's help) to move the empty fridge as the water leak had warped the hardwood floor boards (next time ceramic tile for sure!). This model fridge is the only one that will fit the space available. What looked like a fine mist was spraying from the plastic water supply line through a tiny pin hole opening that leads from the copper pipe feed. As I learned immediately the shut off valve for the pipe was not fully shut off (needed a plier and more strngth-not just my hand turning it as I was told...). After that valve was properly shut off we rushed to the hardware store to get a replacement kit (this was--we thought an emergency....). This was installed. We turned the water supply back on at the valve in the basement-pressed the fridge water dispenser to clear the line and nothing came out, but we washed most of the hardwood floor between the fridge, and back hallway as water ran under the fridge across the floor. Naturally we thought that we had done something wrong. Dried the floor-re-checked everything-and did the 'test' again with the same result. Shut off the water supply from the copper properly this time, turned on a fan to dry out the floor. Since the fridge was still in the middle of the hall blocking the kitchen we took the lower back panel off the fridge (we had vacuumed it out earlier) and starting checking the interior tubing--that's when we found a crack in the water feed line. I went on the computer to AppliancePartsPros.com and started looking for the right part. (I had used you to fix the oven heating element and know how good you folks are.) This is a fantastic site. I ordered the parts needed, and a 'back up' Union Connector in case we did something wrong connecting the new water line internally....... When we cut the original tubing free from the fridge we found a section was completely rigid-and it actually cracked apart in my hand. The new tubing was cut with sharp scissors and was installed and up in running in about ten minutes (including testing for floor washing ability) removing and replacing the back panel, etc.. We thoroughly dried the floor under the fridge (fan running for two days), have hired a repair man to replace that part of the floor, and the ceiling below has dried out nicely-the tiles dried out and are back in place. The worse part was trying to move the fridge! It's a monster even empty.

Our adventure started with stepping in a wet spot in the carpeting in a bedroom adjoining the kitchen. The wet 'spot' turned out to be a wet 'section.' WTH?!? Pulling out the nine-year-old GE side-by-side refrigerator revealed the answer, something leaking big time under that fridge. We suspected the ice maker since we now hear water flowing when the ice cube tray replenishes. However trial & error showed the leak correlated with using the in-door water dispenser. At least we had stopped the leak. Ice maker, refrigerator/freezer still worked fine. A look on-line offered one good repair video for a specific issue involving the water dispenser supply line, but little about the routing of that water line. Then a nephew very skilled in home repair introduced us to AppliancePartsPros.com. There we found videos that showed the path of those water lines and a specific one of 'Reba' analyzing the supply line to the water dispenser and how to remove/repair a leaking section along with the parts needed. Bingo! And right next to the video were listed the parts required making it easy to put those items 'in the cart' and complete the order. In our case, the leak came from a portion of the tubing in contact with the compressor (brilliant design, GE!) which became brittle and eventually burst Even with standard shipping the parts arrived in four days. The repair took me a few minutes longer than Reba's work, but I was careful to route the new tubing as far from that compressor, or anything else hot, as I could. So far, so good. Many thanks AppliancePartsPros.com.

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.

I first went on line and through YouTube found several possible causes- frozen water line in Freezer door, leak in cold water tank in the refrigerator, problem with the water-tank to freezer door water line. Per video instructions, I pulled the bottom on the refrigerator and found that the water fine from the tank to the freezer door had broken. An on-line chat with an AppliancePartsPros representative lead me to the correct parts and the video on how to fix my specific problem. Repair was quick and easy - all I needed was a screw driver and a razor blade and the Water Tank Tube and Union Connector which ordered and the repair itself took 30 min. Great to have water from the refrigerator again.

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.