Kitchen Large Electric Appliances - flood under SxS Sears refrigerator

Woke up this morning to hear a leaking noise coming from the laundry room. Turned on light & found large puddle under the refrigerator [Sears 106.57202600].:eek: Immediately turned off water supply to refrigerator, noise stopped. Took 2 beach towels & 4 bath towels to clean up water spill. Unit producing whole ice cubes & cold water without any problems. Back of refrigerator dry. Turned on water supply, noise & leak returned. Leak appears to be coming from under left/freezer side. Might I need to replace water inlet solenoid? If so, what type. Any input valued. Thanks

Just an update. Refrigerator is at least 1 year old, but had not replaced the water filter underneath the front of the freezer side. :p [Not too intelligent on my part, I know, to have not replaced the filter before. Believe me I'll replace the filter 6 months from today.] Replaced filter. Took off both front & rear guards. Noticed that the drain pan was completely filled. I then turned on the water supply. No leaks from either the fill solenoid or the filter housing! Flushed the system with about 2 gallons of water through the water dispenser, still no leaks!!

Drain pan receives water from auto-defrost cycle which appears to work. My guess is that the filtration system has a relief valve to prevent folks like me from doing too much damage to the refrigerator.

Just have one question, though. How do you empty the drain pan? The only possible way I saw to take through the front was to remove the filter housing. Could not see any way to get it out through the back. Too low to siphon. Don't want to lay down with a large straw & empty tin can. Please advise. Thanks.

Some drain pan are not made to be removed, and that may be your case. It sounds like the inlet water line is leaking where it connects to the water valves. They are located on the back, right hand side.

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Too low to siphon. Don't want to lay down with a large straw & empty tin can. Please advise. Thanks.

A shop vac with filter removed, plus crevice tool, plus straw taped into crevice tool.

I bailed out a stationary defrost pan with a turkey baster today. That worked just fine. The pan filled to overflowing today after I thawed out frozen coils and wires in freezer where I had to change out the defrost stat today, on a bottom-freezer fridge.