Water/ice maker runs on it's own

Water is forcefully pouring out of despenser when switched to water. We switched it to "ice" and motor will kick on and shoot ice every so often. The tab is not being pushed in during these running cycles. Recently changed the filter and refered to trouble shooting in the manual. It said to drain the water out for 3 mintues ( aprox. 1.5 gallons ) this didn't work. Any suggestions....

Silly Rabbit Dec 08, 2007

continuious water from ice maker continuious water from ice maker
brimm Jan 25, 2008

We have a side by side Kennmore refrig. The water dispenser will not quit dripping.

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The drain the water thing is to get the air out the lines and filter so a burst of air doesn't splash water all over you. Water shooting out sounds like the circuit board is bad since you are not pushing the tabs, etc. I doubt that BOTH switches under the tabs are stuck in the "on" positon but you can always double check that too.

Posted on Dec 20, 2006

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