Water dispenser does not work

Bad inlet valve

your water line must be freezing up. Take a hair dryer & defrost the water line.

Assuming you have no issues whatsoever with temperatures, I would check your water filter first. Second thing to check, and this will require knees on the floor and a little strength in your hands. remove the toe plate at the bottom front of unit. Under the freezer door, you will see a white opaque water line, with a blue push in, or white screw on, union. if its the white screw on type, simply unscrew one end and seperate, if its the blue push in, grab the union with your left hand, and squeeze the white collars while pulling gently on the water line away from the door, if you squeeze the collar(s) enough, the line will slip right out. You will only get a marginal amount of water when you first seperate this union. Put the water line that DOES NOT come out of the door into a bowl, and actuate the water lever in the door. You will likely get water coming out into the bowl. A common problem with GE refrigerators. due to improper insulation in the door surrounding dispenser, the water line in the door tends to freeze up. the only solution, other than buying a new door, is to unplug unit for about 4 hours, open freezer door, blow fan at door, test dispenser, after you reconnect the water line under toe plate of course. If still no water, defrost for another 4 hours, but that will be unlikely necessary.

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The ice works off of a different solenoid than the water dispensor . So , I would suggest this action : At the bottom of the freezer door ( remove the kick plate ) , there will be a water line . Follow this line , about 6 " to a connector . Push in on the white ring and pull out the line , at the same time . Activate the water dispensor pad and see if water flows from the line under the refrig . If it does , then the line in the door is frozen . Either raise the freezer temp for several days , so the line in the door will thaw , or , I have heard using an air tank will blow the ice out of the line in the door . If no water comes from the line under the refrig , while activating the pad , then replace the water valve , behind the refrig , the piece the wall water line connects to on the refrig .

Same problem with mine, no water, but could hear humming when pushing dispense lever. There is a coupler in the water line below the freezer door, I pulled it and opened it*, water came out when actuating the dispense lever. So it wasn't frozen between there and the wall, had to be frozen inside the freezer door. Solution? Turn off freezer side of the fridge and leave door open for an hour or two, voila, water in door again. *little blue coupler, push white collar in towards blue plastic to release line, push line back in all the way to replace it. This line has pressure only when dispensing water, and then not much pressure.

The line inside the freezer door is frozen . Turn the temp in the freezer , to warmer for a few days , and it should thaw . A dispensor heater is available , pt # WR49X10173 . Instructions come with the part .

Okay. My appliance is around four years old. The first time the water quit working was about a year ago (ice cubes / dispenser was fine). I just let it go and didn't worry about it. One day months later, I found it functional again. That lasted about a month or two, then it recently quit again. Tonight, I located the water supply line coupling under the unit on the left side under the freezer door, about five inches from the hinge. I separated the coupling (push lock type) and pressed the water dispenser lever. After a few seconds, the water flowed out just fine. I re-attached the coupling, turned the freezer coldness selector to 0 (off) opened the freezer door and fetched my wife's blow dryer. I ran the dryer along the inside of the freezer door near the black door seal frrom the hinge up to the water/ice dispencer compartment. I also ran it all along the back of the dispenseer compartment to the handle side of the door as I am unsure of where the water line runs. After about ten minutes of this, I attempted to dispense water with no luck. I continued with the blow dryer until the plastic and even the door seal were very warm to the touch. I closed the door and attempted to dispense water once again, and this time it worked. I turned the coldness selector back on. This time I set the freezer to 3 and the fridge to 7. I ran several cups of water through the dispenser since it's been sitting in the line for a while before drinking any. As for the "reservoir," I don't where or if one exists, but heating up the inside of the door from hinge to dispenser worked perfectly. Hope this helps someone!

Cheers!

I would try putting on the light at the dispenser. It worked for me but took almost 24 hours to work. I am now keeping the light on all the time. Simple solution to try. My ice was working when the water was not coming out.

Hello, If you can see the water line inside the freezer case you might try using a hair blow dryer to try to thaw it out to get water flowing again? Good Luck! Dr. Know

hesshouse ---- thanks for the tip. I only had to leave the light on in the dispenser for less than 5 minutes and the water's running fine now!