How to repair a dishwasher, not draining. Hey everybody, this is adam and, let’s see ifi can help. You fix your dishwasher now they have not changed much in the past few decades. So, even if you have an old one or a different brand than the one I am fixing, it does notreally matter, because they are often built the same and even use the same parts.
What you find in mine will probably look a lot like what you find in yours now before you take apart your dishwasher. You are going to want to look inside your garbage disposaland see if the pipe is clogged now their is a little hole inside kind of nasty or you can unscrew the pipe that’s attached to it under your sink now that pipe leads toyour dishwasher. If that’s clogged with food or clogged with something, then the water isnot going to ba able to leave your dishwasher and it’s going to sit in there or it couldbe just restricted. That could be a problem too, so make sure that pipe is clean.
Also check your ptrap has nothing stuck in there. You will know if your sink is not drainingvery well, so that will be a sign. If you have done that, then you can start taking apartyour dishwasher take out the racks. The top rack is going to be held in with a clip this one.
I have to push in a little lever on the inside, lift it up and out. There is a clip on the left and on the right after you remove the clips. The top rack should slide right out, and while you are here, you might want to look at the screws around your door. Thesethings come loose.
It can stop your door from closing all the way. Also, if you have a holein, the gasket around your dishwasher, it can leak. So if your dishwasher is leaking onthe floor by the door, that might be the problem before you take out, any screws lay a clothdown so that they don’t drop down inside.
It can be really annoying and it happensall the time there is a screw in the back and the top. If you happen to loose thosescrews, they are stainless steel, so you are going to want to find stainless steel screwsto replace them. The lower sprayer comes out by unscrewing the part in the middle it pops right off. I am using a t15 bit to take out the four screws.
Three of them are visibleand, one is hiding behind the arm. The arm should be free to move now. Turn it about 45° and lift up.
It should come right out somewhere. There is going to be this littleplastic ring. You want to hang on to that. Don’t loose it now.
You can access the 4thscrew that was hidden before the plug should come right out and you should be able to lift out the filter and underneath mine. Look at that. A label is floating around thisis often happening. There are labels and stickers on plates, especially kids ones.
They cancome off and jam parts inside we have a cover that we are going to take off. It will be held on with one screw. Then you can see the blade and the screen on the bottom of the cover.
There is more paper and plastic rammed in corners check yours out and clear. It outyou want to make sure that all the parts that you put back in have been cleaned spin, the blade and make sure that it moves it’s going to be a little stiff, but it should be able to spin without it feeling like. You are going to break anything, there’s chunks of plastic and debris. Hopefully you can find the obvious problem here.
Hopefully, it’s there and youcan clear it out, also on the back of the filter pop it off and clean out the undersideall. This crud that gets stuck on your screen, slows down the water and will make it so thatyour dishwasher is not cleaning as effectively then place. The cover back on the cover, shouldfit very nicely you shouldn’t, feel like you have to force it.
It shouldn’t feel like it’sfighting back. If it does, something is misaligned, so take it off and make sure it slips on easily then put the filter back on and before you tighten all the screws put them in one at a time that way, if you drop one, you don’t have to take the Others out once they arein the holes, tighten them hopefully, cleaning and clearing it out fixed your problem before you put the plug back in slip on the clear ring, put it in the arm and insert the arm and give it a turn, and it should lock in Place put on your lower sprayer arm thenut inside that you tighten it to should spin freely. If it does not, then pull it up andloosen. It then put in the back screw and the top screw use a cloth to catch the screwsincase.
You drop. One then slide the racks in and throw the clips in place this usuallyfixes most dishwashers with a draining problem. It’s just something is down there inside andthe blade can’t grind it up, it’s just stuck and the water is not going to leave if it’sall clogged.
Once you have cleared it out, hopefully it works. If it doesn’t you mayhave a pump problem or a pump failure, in which case you would need to pull your dishwasherout. I really hope this video has helped you. If so, please, click like and subscribe havean awesome day.