Amana SBD20NE Refrigerator - Water Reservoir Discontinued...Alternatives?

[cabland]

Hello All,

We recently had the water valve replaced on our older Amana refrigerator (model SBD20NE).  At that time the copper supply line was also replaced with a stainless braided line.  We immediately noticed substantially increased water pressure from our refrigerator water dispenser post replacement.  However, we also began noticing black sediment in the water (not a ton, but there).  We flushed a ton of water through and even had an inline filter installed (no impact).  This refrigerator does NOT have an internal water filter.

I popped off the water reservoir cover and see the coiled tubing looks to be discolored with brown/black goop in the tubes.  I suspect the increased water pressure is doing a nice job of dislodging the sediment from the reservoir tubes.  Unfortunately, that particular tube kit (part ap4133361) shows to be discontinued (ex: app parts pro link ).  Is there a universal replacement since it is just a glorified roll of tubing?  I see this "Frigidaire" kit listed as a universal kit as an example: repair clinic universal kit

Will the universal kit I have listed work?  Any other options?

Thanks!

 

[16345Ed]

It should

[evaappliance]

just a roll of 5/16 tubing and two sharkbite connectors from most any hardware store 

[cabland]

Thanks All - I went ahead and ordered the "universal" kit from repair clinic and installed it today.  A few comments:

1. Designed to replace the tank - So this kit is really designed to replace the "tank".  In this case, it assumes the tank is a frigidaire unit.  So, what that meant was that it came with the roll of 5/16 tubing and two sharkbite connectors.  You "cut off" your tubing as it emerges into the fridge and splice in the roll.  UNFORTUNATELY, the two sharkbite connectors are 5/16 to 1/4 instead of a 5/16 to 5/16 union.  So, I ended up having to buy two additional sharkbite connectors.
2. Line from valve to "reservoir" roll and reservoir roll to dispenser line - So I spliced in the reservoir roll...and then ended up realizing I shoudl just go ahead and replace the gunky line from the valve to the reservoir.  So I bought another piece of 5/16" line from Lowes and replaced that line too.  I did not replace the line from the reservoir roll to the door dispenser line...mostly because I just had knee surgery and I was already pushing it with the more accessible lines (sitting here icing knee now as my penance)

If I were to do it again, I would do exactly as evaappliance suggested...just buy a long piece of 5/16" line and two sharkbite connectors to just replace the reservoir.  Even more likely, I would have just "unrolled" some of the reservoir line and used it to connect directly to the water valve and perhaps dispenser/door line (might have needed a single new sharkbite there).

I still see a very tiny bit of sediment (we are talking a single tiny dot in a glass of water), so I may yet replace the line going from reservoir to door and within the door...a repair for another day!