One of the most common causes is that the line has frozen, unplug the water line from where it enters the freezer (turn off the water first) and see if the line is iced over (may have to open the freezer and look from the inside after removing ice maker to tell for sure). if not, the next thing to do is check to see if the ice maker is calling for water. to find out set a voltmeter to the 12 volts dc range and check to see if there is any current on the water solenoid valve at the point in the cycle where the ice maker should fill. if there isn't either replace the ice maker (faster and easyer) or replace the ice maker's timer. unless you have a local shop you like i recomend parts from here: http://www.appliancepartspros.com/partsearch/
I would immediately check the ice maker area and look for a little tube (usually black and about an inch long). Once found, try to flex or bend it and if it's stiff, more than likely the line is frozen and ice is plugging up the line. Just take out your good old blowdryer and blow the area on high heat for a few minutes. Soon and hopefully, you should start to see some water slowly dripping out of the tube and eventually, the frozen ice core will slide out of the tube. Finally, wait a couple hours of so and see if you have any new ice.
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If your icemaker is producing small cubes, hollow cubes, huge cubes, or a solid slab of ice, one of the first things you want to check is the fill level. And it's not as difficult as you might think. (Hey, the hard part's wrenching that bottle out of Pookie's little fingers!) Unplug the refrig, pull the icemaker - usually one screw underneath, either 2 more or hooks above the cube mold - and unplug it. Take it to your sink and melt out any cubes with hot water. Then plug it and the refrig. back in, leaving it unattached from the freezer wall.
Manually start a 'harvest cycle' (see below) and hold Pookie's bottle under the fill tube. You'll have to wait a few minutes, because the water enters near the end of one complete rotation of the cube ejector, which constitutes a 'harvest cycle'. Regardless your type of icemaker, you're looking for 130-150 cc's, with most working best around 145cc's, but anywhere in this range should work OK.
(When replacing your icemaker with a new one, always check and adjust the water fill level this way too. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.)
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