BISW42EKC General Electric Refrigerator - Instructions

Removed the old assembly from the refrigerator. Used a screwdriver to remove the four screws attaching the old assembly to the plastic front plates. Opened the box holding the new part (which had arrived very promptly at our doorstep), removed it and attached it very easily to the plastic front plates using the same four screws. Placed the new assembly in the refrigerator and started making new ice. It was EASY!! We had read what others had said about this repair and knew it would be something we could do. Your website is very user friendly and helpful.

Pull out the old, dump the nasty ice. Remove 4 screws attached to the front cover. throw in trash, replace with new auger assembly, with 4 screws. Put it back in ice maker and let it make ice. Easy, cheap and never left the house to searc for the right part, found it on the front porch.

Turned off the breaker to the fridge because I couldn't reach the power plug to unplug it . Use small flat head screwdriver to pop out the piece, disconnected the rubber prong connectors, inserted the new piece into the rubber prongs snapped it back into place. Flipped the breaker back on and prayed it worked. It did and I saved myself $120 service call.

i ordered this ice maker on sunday night and paid for the cheapest shipping. it got here monday morning and i couldnt believe it. super fast shipping!! works great

I watched the video online, followed the instructions and within minutes had the part installed. The frig light was working once again! I will say the original switch was very snug and I had to do some very minor scraping of the plastic to get the new part to slide in.

This is the easiest thing in the world - thanks for sharing other's installation - it took 5 mins - works perfect & we have clean ice - 4 easy screws to remove - anyone can do it!

Removed old ice bucket with auger. Unscrewed front plates that form the front of the ice bucket. Replaced the front plates on the new part (ice bucket and auger). Replaced new assemblage. It took about 20 minutes. Had to empty ice out and put in a temporary cooler for storage. Bigger problem than the repair was diagnosing what was wrong. Pushed disagnose button and it said ice maker was working normallly. Careful examination of the ice bucket removed from refrigerator showed spring out of place on long metal rod that protrudes from the back of the ice bucket and fits into a square hole in back of refrigerator. Examined other end of rod that engages with plastic parts that run the ice auger and ice crusher mechanism. A piece must have broken off. That was the problem. Refrigerator ice maker now works fine as originally designed. Push crudh the ice crusher engages and you get crused ice. Push cubes and the icemaker crusher slides out of the way and you get cubes.

Ordered at PartSelect and received the auger and blade within days. Printed the parts diagram and proceeded to take the auger apart the time it took would have been much less but I seized the opportunity to do a deep cleaning of the old parts before replacing them....The part diagram was the key to simplicity and the fast shipping was awesome. Thanks I'll be back....

I simply removed 6 screws that held bucket to face and pit on new bucket and put it back in freezer works great

Part attaches to metal plate near crushing fingers which attaches to ice holding bin. Remove about 6 screws total on each side of plate. You must disassemble the auger & other parts so you can reassemble it in the proper order. Not many parts but i always take pics to cut down on time. New part is at the other end of the auger and acts as the holde of the auger shaft. Picture a crankshaft with a bearing on each end so the auger rotates between new part and the other end of auger shaft. That's it.

1. The fill tube assembly is located on the left side of the compressor compartment on top of the refrigerator toward the back of the unit.
2. Remove the front grill from the compressor section and turn off power to the refrigerator.
3. In the freezer section, remove the ice maker cover, ice holding/feed tray, and the ice maker assembly.
4. It was necessary to use a small hair dryer to unfreeze ice inside and around the fill tube so that the fill tube could be pulled down from the grommet.
5. The grommet, which is located on top of the freezer unit next to the compressor, having been in place for many years, was difficult to remove both because of the difficulty of reaching the grommet in the narrow space between the compressor housing and the outside body of the refrigerator and the grommet fitting so snugly into the mounting hole.
6. To remove the grommet, I carefully used a set of small plastic pry tools (available at an auto parts or hardware store) to slowly unseat the grommet from the refrigerator and then used a twisting motion while pulling up on the grommet to remove it from the housing.
7. Clean around the hole in the freezer housing carefully.
8. For my model refrigerator, the new grommet piece is slightly longer than the original piece, and while the original fill tube is plastic, the replacement fill tube is made from metal and is slightly longer than the original fill tube.
9. Due to the different sizes of the new parts, it was necessary to shorten the length of the new grommet so that it would seat properly into the hole in the compartment. I also had to reuse the old plastic fill tube so that the fill tube would properly fit inside the ice maker assembly. It is probably possible to trim the metal fill tube with an appropriate cutting tool if the old tube cannot be reused.
10. If you are going to trim the new unit, carefully measure the old grommet and trim the new grommet to match the size of the original, then insert the new grommet into the hole in the upper cabinet section. The fill tube can than be inserted into the grommet from inside the freezer compartment by sliding the fill tube into the hold inside the freezer compartment and seating it by feel into the grommet. However it is also apparently possible to fit the fill tube into the grommet first and then insert the fill tube and grommet from the top of the refrigerator where the hold inside the compressor space is located.
11. If replacing the poly tubing between the water valve assembly and the grommet (a good idea if the tubing is old), it is simpler to attach new poly tubing into the grommet before placing the grommet into the mounting hole. A small hose clamp can be used as well to secure the tubing in the grommet attachment point.
12. Mount the ice maker in the freezer compartment making sure the fill tube sits inside the plastic piece at the back of the ice maker that collects the water from the fill tube.
13. Replace the ice collection/feed component.
14. Replace the ice maker cover.
15. Turn on the unit and test the ice maker to ensure there are no leaks in the new parts.

We only needed the rear plastic cylindrical helix. After installing it, there was a squeal of metal on metal due to insufficient clearance between the rear moving blade and the Ice dispenser plate.

Refrigerator Ice Maker 7/16” (or ½” hole, stainless steel) washer just behind #334 Rear Moving dispenser Blade PS292310 to give clearance so it doesn’t hit #345 / PS292441 Ice Dispenser Plate.

This was my first time at doing this so it took longer than someone experienced. But, it worked!

Since I really needed to replace the deteriating auger I used the original ice bucket and transferred the new auger assembly into the old ice bucket. Looked complicated at first, but make it work and my refrigerator is now making nice clean ice. It would have taken a lot longer if I sent the new bigger ice bucket back and it was my fault. With the videos and pictures on line made the replacement of the auger & ice bucket easy. Thanks Bill

This was so easy I think it took me 2 minutes. I am not very mechanically inclined but that didn't matter! Works perfect thank you!

put the gratefruit knife behind the old switch pooped it out pluged the new one in piece of cake 5min.even vacumed the dust off the coil