Product review (5 stars): Icemaker making ice again, not clogging Fill Tube anymore
Hi,

Over the past several months, I have had to do some DIY fixes for our Maytag Fridge/Freezer Side by side.

Had to replace the Filter & then the Filter Head to fix the water flow to the door water and icemaker...CHECK & CHECK

Then over time, the icemaker started acting up where it would make ice for a few days, and then it would spray frozen water around the inside of the freezer.  Each time I cleared it out, defrosted the filler tube and started over.... NO JOY.
Let me say at one point, the underlying issue was made worse by a bad sprinkler head in our yard that was dumping tons of water and lowered the water pressure inside the house so much that it was screwing up the icemaker.

Finally I decided to go ahead and replace this Valve.  It was the only part left, and the on-going symptoms seemed to match the diagnosis of a leaking valve, allowing a small flow of water into the fill tube AFTER the normal icemaker fill cycle had completed.
This cause the fill tube to clog with ice and further cycles then sprayed water inside the freezer, which then froze all over and usually turning any ice in the ice-bin into a solid piece of pack-ICE.

Now that it has been a few days out from replacing the valve, our icemaker is starting fill up the ice bin once more.

I was getting annoyed that the amount of ice has been slow, but until tonite when I read more about icemaker(s) in general, where it mentions that the internal freezer temp has to get below 15 F for the icemaker to cycle and eject the new cubes.  Apparently, my OCD ice checking was actually working against me as each time I opened the freezer to check on the ice, caused the temperature to rise and thereby slow down the icemaking process.... DOH !!

The Valve seems to have fixed the final problem.  The price on Amazon was the best I could find anyplace