W10619951 Refrigerator Drain Tube Replacement for Whirlpool Maytag Kenmore

Fixed a leaky refrigerator. Easy to install

My Maytag bottom freezer floor was icing over with up to a 1/2 inch of ice. During defrost cycle, the water would melt and leak on the floor at both front corners of the refrigerator. I had to manually scrape the ice every few days to prevent the problem. I tried changing the drawer gasket with no improvement. Research indicated the old design of the drain tube would get clogged causing water to leak in the the freezer compartment and freeze. This part has fixed the problem. Installation was straight forward, though the instructions were minimal. A YouTube video taught me all I needed to know to perform the repair. Total time was about an hour.

Just what I needed to finish repair on my Maytag refrigerator. Perfect fit.

I used this to replace a clogged drain in a Whirlpool WRF535SMBM00 in a rental house. After researching it why I had ice on the bottom of the freezer and water on the floor in front of the refrigerator, I knew I had found my problem. All of the troubleshooting data says it's because the "duck-bill grommet" gets clogged and the part had been re-designed to eliminate that problem. However, when opened up my refrigerator to replace the factory drain tube, I found that it already had the re-designed p-trap tube that looked just like this one. The factory p-trap tube was clogged with baking soda that somebody had spilled or maybe used to clean the refrigerator. I realized later that I could've just cleaned out the factory tube and put it back, but this part was inexpensive and solving the problem quickly was a priority. Installation is easy. I found a video of it online. The only difference is that since my refrigerator came with this re-designed part from the factory, the upper drain hole was larger and the small white adapter tube that comes with this part was not necessary. I highly recommend you have a shop vac with a narrow crevice tool attachment so you can vacuum up the dust while you've got the rear cover off. My takeaways are: 1. This part is identical to the re-designed factory part. 2. If your refrigerator came with the re-designed factory part, you may not need the small white adapter that comes with this part. 3. If your refrigerator has the re-designed part installed, it still might be clogged, but you can probably clean it instead of replacing it.

worked well. still not sure what caused the water leakage from the fridge.

My daughter's refrigerator was forming ice and leaking water underneath and the stock freezer defrost drain seemed like the likely cause. This was way cheaper on Amazon than at any of the online appliance parts stores. It's a knockoff, but seems adequate. The first mistake I made was in following the instructions and replacing the original rubber duckbill valve with the adapter on the freezer drain only to find that it then wouldn't fit into the p-trap drain tube. Pro tip: install it on the drain tube first. Second mistake was breaking the drain pan fitting on the other end trying to get it off the old funnel drain. It was stuck on pretty tight and is brittle plastic The fitting is actually part of the plastic drain pan, but I think it will be ok. So why did they design this replacement as a p-trap? Nearly as I can figure, for the same reason the drain on your sink has one... to keep harmful stuff from crawling up the drain tube. Time will tell if this solves the problem.

Drain tube for whirlpool replacement worked perfect

Seems to be working so far!

Great product well made and easy to install and arrived fast very pleased with this product

It's hard to make it fit

Bought a few of these and they are not very durable. They can’t take the heat of the compressor area and I find the rubber is a little too stiff to push up to the cabinet. One of these actually melted and distorted out of shape so bad I could barely get the thing out. They definitely can’t take heat.