How to repair the Ice Maker in your RV Fridge. This one was new to me. Our Ice Maker worked great for several days and then, one morning, I opened the door and saw that several of our frozen food packages had a thick coating of ice on them. I quickly pulled them out of the freezer, knocked the ice off of them and placed them back into the freezer. I took a deep breath and then I told my wife that I thought we had a little problem developing. By that evening, I saw that I was right. We never saw actual water, leaking in the freezer, but we did have an obvious water leak that I finally discovered was dripping from the bottom of the control section of the Ice Maker. After cleaning out the freezer, again, I jumped onto my PC, and downloaded a set of old NorCold Ice Maker service and installation manuals. And, after going through them, I realized that I had at least one of several potential problems. One, the Water Valve assembly in the Ice Maker was mis-functioning, or; Two, the Input Water Hose was leaking (possible old and cracked?), or;
Three, The leak was inside the Ice Maker assembly and the whole thing needed replacement. So, being in a campsite, far away from home, I decided to "jackleg" the problem, at least temporarily until I got home. Because the water leak was at the very edge of the control section of the Ice Maker, I modified a plastic storage container and removed the lip along one edge. I then place the plastic container directly against the edge of the Ice Maker where the leak was coming from. My idea was to just catch the freezing water in the container and continue to use the ice Maker for the next couple of weeks that we were camping. I also placed a bag of frozen Peas against the plastic container to keep it wedged tightly against the side of the Ice Maker. It worked great! Each morning, I would open the Freezer door, break off the 1/2-inch diameter shaft of ice that had developed down into the container, and then I removed all of the ice in the container.
Then I would replace the container against the Ice Maker, (with the bag of Peas, of course) and; Voila! We continued to get Ice for the remainder of our camping stay.