I have a maytag model msd2456GE that has water dripping onto the floor from the freezer side. I determined that when pulling out the freezer drawers, there is water dripping from behind the back wall vents (halfway up the wall) and then that water runs down the wall and gathers on the bottom of the freezer floor until it fianlly spills out onto the floor. The freezer still seems to keep everything frozen (including ice cubes). The water is not coming from the ice cube area.
This sounds like the evaporator drain may be clogged either in the freexer compartment or at the outlet to the drain pan under the unit. Every defrost cycle the defrost element makes water by melting the ice on the evaporator coils. If the drain is clogged there is no other place for the ice to go. Many times the drain may just have ice buildup in the evaporator drain funnel that can be corrected with a manual defrosting.
To do this manual defrosting all you do is first unplug the unit then remove everything from the freezer compartment. After that place a fan blowing into the freezer section for a little over 2 hours. Please NOTE this will make more of that pesky water mess so be ready to tend to the mess as it presents itself.
After the 2 hour fan session plug the unit back in and reload the freezer compartment with previous content. Monitor for the possibility of the water manifeting itself again.
In addidtion to the above there is a drain pan catch basin in the bottom of the unit near the compressor. They are usually white plastic on Maytag units and not to rugged. Make sure that the drain pan is not loaded with debris. There is about a 1/2 inch diameter opaque plastic line that drains into the catch basin. That is the Evaporator darin tube. Ensure the very end of the tube does not have caked up debris in the very end of the tube. Sometimes this tube cakes up and then the debris dries hard inside the tube near the end. Make sure the tube is free of foreign objects and clean.
After all of the above / cleaning and clearing / manual defrosting it is still making water then most likely the lower panel under the defrosting element / evaporator may have become disconnected allowing defrost cycle water from the melted ice into the freezer compartment vs exit via the drain. To fix the disconnected power metal panel problem the rear freezer panel would have to removed to re-attach / repair the metal panel that guides the water into the evaporator drain.
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Kelly
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Thank you! Kellys solution was exactly the advice I needed. On this exact model fridge/freezer mine ws frozen at the top funnel and also some ice on the evaporator. The drain tube had a ball of dust in it right past the top elbow. The slight up draft of the horizontal portion of the drain tube doesn't help with this problem. I had to remove mine and flush it clear. Clogging at the bottom end was not a problem as the tube is cut at a 45 deg angle.
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