The short answer
On the 61W341 refrigerators where the water appears is most of the diagnosis: the door, the back of the cabinet and the inside of the liner each mean something different. On these models an overfilling ice maker is the first thing this page would have you rule out. None of the causes below needs a technician to rule out — only the repair might.
What you observe on these models
- A sheet of ice under the bottom drawer — The same fault caught before it reaches the floor.
- Ice outside the mould, on the shelf or down the back wall — A fill is overshooting or is aimed wrongly.
- A steady drip near the filter head — The head is under supply pressure whether the appliance runs or not.
- Water in one drawer and nowhere else — A closed humidity slide and wet produce will do this on their own.
- NEAR MISS — the box is warm as well as wet — Start with the cooling page for this family.
Causes, most likely first on this family
- Ice maker overfilling or the fill tube misaligned — Ice outside the mould — on the shelf or down the back wall — is this fault and very little else. First, because it accounts for every observable above without needing a second fault. This family is a single build, so it holds across the line.
- Condensation in a drawer mistaken for a leak — Opening the slide and drying the drawer settles it within a day. It ranks second — the fault the first check leaves standing.
- Supply tap or saddle valve seeping — The self-piercing valves used on older installations corrode round the pierce point and seep long before they fail outright. Third: a real cause on these cabinets, but a less frequent one.
- Water inlet valve or its fitting weeping — The water arrives at the back on the supply side, and it arrives whether or not the appliance is running. Last, which is exactly why the checks above are worth spending first.
- Body: One build, one age band: that is what moves loading and installation causes above wear causes here, where the brand-wide article ranks them the other way round.
Check in this order, and why
- Look at the mould and the shelf under it for ice that is outside the cavity. — First, because it settles the top of the ranking before anything else is touched.
- Check whether the water is confined to a drawer with its humidity slide closed. — Next, once the check above has come back clean.
- Unplug the appliance for a day and see whether the water keeps arriving. — Last, so that nothing further is spent until the cheaper checks are exhausted.
Power down first, then work
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel, because a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Nothing on the sealed system is owner work; those lines are under pressure. Dry the floor before pulling the appliance out, and keep water away from the electrical parts at the base of the cabinet.
Models in the 61W341 family
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| 61W341 | amana:refrigerator:61w341 |
When to call a technician
Call when the leak returns within weeks of the drain being cleared: that pattern puts the blockage upstream in the trough, behind a panel. Call sooner if the water is arriving from the supply side.
The other faults covered for this family
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