At 10:50 AM 1/25/2009, Jim Franklin wrote:
>My dishwasher has a 1/8" shaft on its main motor that drives
the impeller. The
>impeller is on a plastic shaft that slides over the motor's shaft.
There are, well,
>used to be splines to keep these two parts rotating at the same speed, but
>after 8 years of Extreme Dishwashing the plastic splines have worn out and
>squeals like a stuck pig (no pig in the DW, I checked).
Jim,
While this isn't an answer to your question, your dishwasher is 8 yrs old and
broke. Fom my experience, they aren't worth the trouble to try and fix. The
dishwash that was in the house when we bought had a seal go, and water got
into the motor. So I was going to replace just the motor. But I ran into
problems that the impeller was not designed to be removed from the shaft.
After I got it out, and spent quite a bit of time trying to get the
impeller off the
shaft, I ended up breaking the impeller. When I went to get the new motor the
motor was something like $125 and came with all the parts. Just drop
it in, so
to speak. That lasted another 6 to 8 yrs, with some other minor repairs. When
it failed the 2nd time, I went looking for a new dishwasher. I got a
new one for
around $200 to $250. Now granted that was about about 10 yrs ago. (I guess I
better be thinking about being ready to get a one.)
Looking at Best Buy, they have some for $300 to $500. Unless you really have
some extreamely expensive unit, I'd say don't worry about it, just go buy a new
one.
John
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