Ice maker water line

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We have a 2021 Montana 3231 CK,,, I had water under my fridge after a cold spell. My husband told me it was a crack in the ice maker waterline and to turn the ice maker waterline valve off under my kitchen sink. But I turned off the cold water line I think and don’t know where the ice maker waterline valve is. Can someone help? Please send me a picture if you can.
 
I my unit, there is a valve under the sink, and another valve under the bottom drawer next to the fridge. In the screen shot below - pull out the bottom drawer in the base cabinet next to the fridge and see if the valve is there.

I need to perform a ‘heater fix” to the defroster in my Samsung fridge. Water collects beneath the fridge drawers and freezes, but I have seen wet floors in front of the fridge from time to time. Check for ice/water below your fridge drawers. I don’t know what year Samsung corrected the issue. Maybe your water is not from a weather related freeze and broken pipes.
 

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I don't have access to my unit to get you a picture, but I will try to describe what you "should" see.
Under the sink, you should have a blue PEX line that feeds water to your sink. The valve you turned off in your post that killed water to the sink is the correct line, but there should also be another blue line that Tees off of that one and goes back down under the floor with a second valve on it. That's the valve you will need to turn off that feeds the ice maker.
Once that is off, you may still have a small leak for a while as that line is about 8 feet long and full of water. You could go under your unit and drain it using the white drain line that protrudes through the coroplast. Or simply wait until all the water and pressure has drained on the floor and clean it up.
As Mike said above, there is a second valve next to the refrigerator usually behind the cabinet. In my unit, I had to remove the false back of the cabinet closest to the fridge to get at it. There is a panel in the back of the lower cabinet beside the fridge that has a panel with screws you can remove to find the second valve behind that panel.
 
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My Montana is laid out completely different, but I also have two valves. One is under the sink and the other is right beside the refrigerator where the dining table originally sat (we removed the table). Under the trailer, you should have a low point drain for the ice maker line also. It should be located directly under the line with the cut-off (under the sink).

I found it easiest to disconnect the little blue line that runs from the valve by the dining table area and then leave that valve open. Close the valve under the sink, and open the low point drain. Leave it that way until you are ready to start running the ice maker again.

Valve under the kitchen sink:

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Low point drain under the trailer:

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I added another low-point drain (a second one) on the main water line to help drain the line running under the slide out to the second valve. This second low-point drain works great when un-winterizing the "pink stuff". I drain the water line to the refrigerator, and when I unwinterize, I flush out the pink stuff from all the other lines. When the lines are clear I then open the first valve under sink and the second low point and flush out a few moments, then reattach and open everything up. There's no "pink stuff" that ever gets to the ice make this way.

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Here's the second valve with the blue hose that runs to the refrigerator. Mine is easy access and has that plastic cover to keep it from getting hit with a chair leg or a foot.

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On our ‘21 3231CK, the valve is more like what Mikendebbie said, behind the lower drawer next to the fridge. Except ours has a cover on the back wall, with a label that states the ice maker valve is behind it.
 
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We have this same problem now. After using the trailer last fall I drained and blew out all the water lines, but for whatever reason the low point drain for the ice maker didn't all drain. I'm thinking it might be because I turned the ice maker off before opening the low point and maybe a vacuum held the water in that small water line. Anyway when I turned it all back on last month when we returned to the fiver that line had a leak.
Now my question is, has anyone replaced that 1/4" line behind the residential fridge and how hard a job is it? I assume I have to pull the fridge out. We will be here another month and are just buying bagged ice and I'm thinking that may be easier than the repair.
 
You may have all figured it out by now but on our 24’ 3531RE, the refrigerator is next to the stove/oven door n a slide out. We finally found the ice maker water valve. Our valve is located behind the oven drawer. You have to pull out that drawer to access the valve. Keystone was very thoughtful to place a “ice maker valve” sticker on the inside back, top of the oven drawer. Who crawls around looking for that. Frustrating, but we found it.
 

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