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My fridge is 2-3 years old, one day it quit doing cubed ice. Regardless of setting it only does crushed. I’ve messed with all the settings, Cubed is definitely chosen as the option
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If it appears you are getting only crushed ice from the dispenser, check the following:
To remove and check the ice bucket:
iFixit Staff Suggestion: Check out the Ice Maker Only Crushing Ice wiki for more fixes.
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Remove the ice bin and locate the slot the energizing lever would engage located on the tray that makes the ice cubes. The slot contains a slider which should be in the low/down position when cubes are desired. If it is in the upper position the ice maker will only produce crushed ice and will not response to commands for cubed ice. Nor will it properly engage the energizing level.
I had to remove the bucket. Hearing no click when dispensing ice, I fiddled with the slider. Just jiggled it. Tried again and VIOLA! Problem solved.
That worked for me too!
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This is an easy fix!
When you take the ice maker bin out of the freezer, you will see a long, arm-like wire along the bottom of the bin. The end of it fits into a square 1" hole in the back wall of the freezer.
This arm and the mechanism in the hole are what turns off the ice crusher for just cubes to be dispensed. Like a clutch that allows you to change gears.
Set the ice bin aside and go to that square hole on the back wall of the freezer. Inside that hole, there is a horizontal bar, about 1/4" in diameter, positioned about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the opening.
With your finger, push it down. It will click into place. You'll see it's the bottom of a square that's in frame in that opening and where the end of the arm needs to go.
Once you have pushed that little square frame down, it will stay down so you can replace the ice bin and now have cubes.
Just remember that when it's working, that mechanism will bounce up and rest against the arm from the ice bin.
If you remove the ice bin, you'll have to push that down again before replacing the ice bin.
That's it!
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I realized you can unhook the spring on the back of the wire rod and spin it counterclockwise once 360 degrees so it holds the plastic flap closed instead of open.
Nel, you nailed it ! Thank you
OMG NEL you are an angel! We’ve had this Frigidaire side by side fridge with ice/water dispenser for EIGHTEEN YEARS. For a long time now, I could only get crushed ice, and assumed that something was broken. I downloaded the manual quite awhile back and have just read through it again now, and this whole thing you described is not in there! But thanks to you, I can get whole cubes through the dispenser without having to open the door and scoop them out! ! ! THANK YOU! ! !
Thank you Nel! So grateful for this advice!
This worked for me as well! Thank you!!
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Push down the clutch that disengages the ice crushing function. It is on the back wall, behind the ice bin, or bucket, and the end of the long metal arm along the bottom of the ice bin inserts there.
If you remove the ice bin, you will need to push the clutch down again before replacing the ice bin.
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Thank you, I just finished repairing a different issue with this ice maker where the ice lever was not engaging properly and basically had to push hard and almost break lever for ice to drop. I figured out how to fix that only to have the crushed vs cube issue after I put the whole unit back together. I had feared I had damaged control board as the fix I did had me taking the whole unit apart. Thank you for sharing this quick and easy fix!
The clutch will not stay in the down position. How do I fix that?
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In my case the plastic switch in the back was broken, so I removed the metal control arm and taped the plastic flap at the dispensing end in the open position. Thus, I can get cubes but no crushed ice.
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I realized you can unhook the spring on this rod and spin it counterclockwise once so it holds the plastic flap closed instead of open.
I removed the ice tub, saved the cubes, and turned the tub over to find an ice cube "stuck" behind the plastic flap which effectively kept the dispenser in "crushed" mode regardless of selection (cube or crush) on the front panel. Removed the cube, freed up the plastic flap, and when re-assembled (with saved cubes put back into the tub), the ice maker dispensed ice cubes properly.
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What do I do if the bar inside the square won’t stay down?
Is there a spring that make the ice maker from crushed ice to cubed ice ??
What great advice, however, it appears that the piece in that little hole behind the ice bucket is loose. Also, a small piece of white plastic came from somewhere. I’m assuming that it came from that piece.
Do you think that we should get a replacement piece?
Thank you so much,
Sheri Myers
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I slid the ice bucket in halfway, then pushed white horizontal piece in the square opening up and made sure the metal arm stayed on top of that piece, then finished sliding the ice bin in. The metal arm should rest on top of that white plastic horizontal bar. That fixed the issue for now! I believe my white plastic bar in the square opening is broken as someone had mentioned it should click when you push it down, but mine had no clicking noise when I pushed it down.
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On my Samsung fridge, the sliding piece behind the plastic housing, showing in bottom photo, has to be moved up more. Push up that sliding piece so that the horizontal part of it is lined up with the top of opening. then put the metal arm on ice unit into the larger opening. Hope this helps!
Hubby tried with no success but will
try again. Someone asked for a photo but I can’t remember who so I will leave it here. The lever is not operating correctly in the square hole. The plastic may be broken, but it’s hard to tell.Thank you!
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On my Samsung fridge, the sliding piece behind the plastic housing, showing in bottom photo, has to be moved up more. Push up that sliding piece so that the horizontal part of it is lined up with the top of opening. then put the metal arm on ice unit into the larger opening. Hope this helps!
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Maytag MSD2434GEW My unit only dispensers tubes even when you push the crushed the rod that goes along the bottom there’s a spring it doesn’t seem attached to anything. Is there a diagram showing that spring and what it connects to?
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