Found out from a Frigidaire bulletin last Tuesday that those ice maker failure codes we see all the time are actually caused by a $12 plastic gear that strips out after about 50,000 cycles.

I was digging through old service manuals at a shop in Tucson and spotted a little footnote about the gear being made of a weaker nylon blend in 2019 models, has anyone else tried just swapping that one part instead of replacing the whole ice maker assembly?

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wright.jesse4d ago

I dug through a bin of ice maker parts and found about 15 of those nylon gears from 2019 models.

iris_jones894d ago

honestly i'd rather just swap the whole assembly for like 40 bucks and be done with it. those nylon gears are a pain to dig out and you never know if the rest of the unit is gonna fail a month later anyway. plus if you buy a new assembly you get a warranty, not worth the hassle of saving 20 bucks.