Product review (5 stars): Not Rocket Science
Installing the ice maker is not Rocket Science. The hardest thing is likely to be cleaning out your freezer. You need to 1) clean out your freezer and put frozen food in an ice chest. 2) Find ice maker water shut off tap and turn water off - may be under sink next to sink water shut offs. 3) Unplug refrigerator - water and electricity do not mix. 4) Unplug ice maker electrical connection. This can be hard because the old one has been in there for years. You can end up skinning your knuckles. Try two sets of pliers pulling in opposite directions. Work it slowly because you do not want to damage the connector that goes into the fridge. 5) Using a flat blade screw driver and a set of hex drivers - remove old ice maker - remove screw below ice maker. take out or loosen hex head screws above ice maker. If you loosen the hex heads you should be able to slide the old ice maker up however the water inlet in the back may block the ice maker from moving up. Work with it! SAVE THE OLD SCREWS!!! 6) The kit comes with a selection of wiring harnesses - select the one that looks like your old one and plug it into the new ice maker. There should be a wire with a plastic sleeve on it that fits into a clip behind the new ice maker. This is to hold the harness out of the way. 7) There is a new plastic piece that comes with the ice maker. It has two holes in it at right angles to each other. It comes with one screw. Use this to screw the plastic piece to the new ice maker. It can be a loose fit. Look at how the corresponding piece was fastened on the old one. 8) There is a U shaped indent in the top back of the ice maker. On mine this had to be cut out to fit the water inlet into the ice maker. Your model MAY be different - see how it was on the old one. Using a sharp (hobby) knife cut this piece out. If you try to break it out with a set of pliers you make break it - careful! 9) Connect the wiring harness (connected to the ice maker) to the plug in the back of the freezer. 10) The new ice maker should slide down over the hex head screws that were left in the side of the freezer. You may have trouble getting it on with the water connection sticking out. If so remove the back hex head screw. Once you have it in place with the front screw into the slot you can replace the back hex head screw and finger tighten it. 11) Put the bottom screw in and tighten all three. 12) Plug in refrigerator. 13) Turn on ice maker water tap. 14) Put frozen food back in freezer. All done! Freezer will have to get cold before it starts making ice.