58RIAD Whirlpool Refrigerator - Instructions

I'm by no means handy, but replacing the motor went surprisingly smooth. Using the enclosed instructions and an on-line video walkthrough made the repair easy. My wife now views me as an appliance wizard.

We had to take the cover off, remove screws, take off old control and replace items in reverse order. We had the arm in the wrong position at first and it raised the arm and shut off. We redid the position of the arm and everything has been fine since.

Removed white plastice cover, removed three screws, slid out the assembly unit, replaced with the assembly unit, put screws back in and cover on. A few hours later it was making ice.

Pulled off cover. Removed 3 screws pulled module out installed new one and rinstalled 3 screws. Reinstalled cover. was making ice cubes within 30 min.

I had put in a call for a service man, but our son-in-law assured me he could easily repair the ice maker if the proper part was available. Amazingly the part was identified on line, ordered and received within four days. When it arrived it took him less than half an hour to get it installed and working, and I saved the price of a service call. I would highly recommend PartSelect to anyone needing replacement parts.

Thought that this would be pretty much it for this unit considering it's age. I checked with some of the local repair shops, no one had the part. Did a google look up and partselect.com came up with it.
Ordered part and received it in 2 days. Removed complete ice unit from fridge by removing bottom holding screw and lifting up unit, disconnected power supply (actually you don't need to do this, you can replace in place). Removed old assembly off by removing 4 screws, lined up cam and installed motor unit just like the old one. Replaced complete unit back to fridge and hooked up power. Unit started making ice within the hour. I will usually always try to fix things before sending them to the dump, my effort in being green. I will come back to partselect in the future and will recommend to friends.

Pried out ice blade bar and removed broken water fill cup and replaced with new one.The whole repair costs $9.52 So I saved $ 190 over the cost of Appliance man visit!
It would have been $150& $50 for visit to replace ice maker unit.

Remove tray that held ice then took off cover to the moter.removed three sewes that moter came off .then put on new one

When the ice maker stopped making ice I decided to try to fix the problem myself and save some money in the process. I found out it was really easy to repair, especially after I went to partselect web site and found the part. It took me less than 30 minutes to do the repair and install the new control and motor assembly.Thanks to partselect.com I saved $145.00 serviced call and labor.I would rate partselect.com a ten. Thanks again.
Jim Meinert

exactly like the video clip that the website had for the part - very easy!!

After determining that the gear on the motor assembly had broken off, I ordered from this website. First time using Partselect, and will now always check and hopefully order here first. Repair was very easy. Pulled the old assembly off by taking out three screws, removed the broken assembly, put the new one on, replaced the three screws, and installed the icemaker back into the freezer. Took a about 30 min total. Came back in about an hour and had ice!

Initially, I took the ice make out of the refrigerator. It required removing two screws in the service door and one on the right side under the ice maker to remove a plastic cover for the wiring. There are plastic retainers under the left and right sides of the ice maker that must be pressed to release them so the ice maker can be removed. I had to unplug the wiring at the upper right of the ice maker (the plug has clip that you can slide a small screw driver into to release it and pull the plug apart). Once the ice maker was out I removed the white cover on the left side and it exposed the module. I found the shaft that holds the gear was broken. When the part arrive, I removed the existing module (three screws) and installed the new module. I reversed the ice maker removal process.

I actually went on your website and used the do it yourself repair video as a step by step guide to complete the repair. It was as easy in real life as it was presented on the video. I will use this website to buy and repair future issues I may face with my appiances.

Disconnect power cord turn off water supply. Remove four screws on bottom of ice maker unit.Then look for locking clips on bottom of @ near supports and remove unit sliding & cocking until you can turn motor toward you cord is just long enough pry motor control off with hand or flat blade screw driver buy pressing on side edges.Remove motor from unit by removing three screws & pull out of plug on one corner. [side by side unit not freezer over fridge like video].

Removed the single screw holding the ice maker in Place and unlugged wire ,then removed cover off of the end of ice maker and the three screws holding the actuator onto ice maker and installed new one. Reinstall ice maker......works great