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On the ABMJ roster the shape of the ice is the diagnosis. Hollow or undersized cubes point at water volume, cloudy or slow cubes point at freezer temperature, and no cubes at all points at supply or at the shut-off arm. The roster covers one base number, ABMJ171E, carried twice in the parts data.
What the bin is telling you
- The freezer feels cold but ice takes far longer than it used to — A freezer holds food safely at 0 degrees Fahrenheit or below; an ice maker needs that too. Feel is not a measurement here.
- Production stopped after the freezer was reorganised — The strongest single clue on this page. Something is almost certainly leaning on the shut-off arm or covering a sensor window.
- NEAR MISS - water pooling on the floor as well as no ice — A supply-line leak presents as both at once. The water-leak page for this family covers it.
Ranked by what actually turns up
- Shut-off arm or bin sensor reading full — At the top because it is the only cause on this page that can be created accidentally by putting the shopping away, which makes it both the commonest and the least suspected.
- Household water supply, saddle valve or filter restriction — At this position because restriction degrades before it stops: cube size shrinks for weeks before production ends, which is the pattern that distinguishes it from a valve that has simply failed.
- Fill tube frozen or ice bridged in the mould — Here because it is more often the consequence of another fault than a fault in itself, and clearing it without addressing what caused it buys only a few weeks.
- Ice maker module, motor or thermostat failed — Last because it is the most expensive answer on the page and the one least often correct. A module fitted to a cabinet with any fault above it will behave exactly like the one it replaced.
- Body: The order here follows the water: supply, valve, fill, freeze, harvest. On the ABMJ listings that path crosses the cabinet wall, so checking it in flow order is what stops you opening the freezer for a fault that lives under the sink.
Diagnostic order on these models
- Empty the bin completely and look at the shut-off arm — A raised arm or a frosted sensor window stops production silently. This is the single commonest finding and it costs nothing.
- Listen for a fill at the end of a harvest — A short buzz and no water, or no buzz at all, separates a valve fault from a module fault without removing anything.
- Check whether the ice maker is switched on at all — Many cabinets have a switch or a menu setting that gets turned off during cleaning and never turned back on.
- Body: Work down this list. The first two checks need nothing but an open freezer door and a thermometer, and between them they account for the large majority of no-ice calls on cabinets of this type.
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Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before working on the ice maker, and close the water supply valve first. A capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Never thaw a frozen fill tube with an open flame or a heat gun against the liner; warm water and patience do the same job without distorting plastic.
Models in the ABMJ family — The model roster for this family. This page covers all of it, and nothing on this page is claimed of one listing and not another. Every listing in the roster shares one number series, so the access notes below hold across the roster.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| ABMJ171E | arctic-wind:refrigerator:abmj |
| ABMJ171E* | arctic-wind:refrigerator:abmj |
When this stops being an owner job
The line on the ABMJ listings is the water fitting and the freezer liner. Bins, arms, thermometers, filters and shut-off valves are owner work; inlet valves and modules are not, and a cabinet that is also warming is a cooling job before it is an ice job.
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