A KA KUDV-24 dishwasher followed me home:

[whirlykenmore78]

THen took up residence in my kitchen. I will be doing my first load tonight. My initial impressions are that it is low milage and in very good shape. It runs beautifully. Opening and closing the door you can feel the quality of it. I know this was the TOL when it was made.
WK78

 

[appnut]

And I do believe this has the Power Clean module.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

PC module.

Correct Bob it does.
WK78

 

[lakewebsterkid]

KA

That is an incredible machine you have there! I suggest replacing the lower wash arm bearing.  It will wash happily for years!

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Update:

First load came out perfect and it is the Quietest PC DW I have ever used.
WK78

 

[appnut]

Nick, at one time, Steve 1-18 had the Sears Best/Kenmore Elite version. He remarked under very soil conditions, the Rinse Only cycle would add an extra water change. He'd never seen that before.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Thanks Bob

I'll try that.
WK78

 

[cam2s]

I do love those KitchenAids. Enjoy it!

 

[combo52]

Nice dishwasher

Yay Nick , I hope you get a lot of good use out of this dishwasher. Where did you get it? What’s the story behind it?

John

 

[whirlykenmore78]

@ Combo52

Thanks John. I found it on Marketplace and only 3 miles from my house.

This machine came out of a townhome owned by a lady who passed on about a year ago. Her parents are remodeling the house to put it on the market. The mother worked for Sears at the time helped her daughter get TOL KA appliances for her home. It was used in a 2 person household so not a ton of miles.

AS I am still recovering My friend Marktag came and helped me put it in. So far the performance has been spectacular.
WK78

 

[magic_clean]

Here

are a few items that might need updating:

P/N 675808 manifold. This solid one-piece rack mounted conduit replaces the multi-piece rubber tube and connectors that deliver the water to the upper spray arm. The original tube over time would deteriorate/collapse impeding the free flow water to the spray arm impacting upper rack washability

P/N WP3376846 upper wash arm seal. Can wear down leading to water pressure loss, again affecting cleaning

P/N 4172127 lower door seal. This flexible plastic strip replaces the original soft vinyl part that was prone to tearing that could lead to drips down the access panel

Now your machine may have these updates, either from manufacturing or previous service. In any event, if you need the parts they are inexpensive and simple to replace.

-LP

 

[Chetlaham]

Your find has me shedding tears up so much. This is literally the best dishwashers ever made. How I so passionately wish these were still  produced. If everyone was like me this would be the dominate dishwasher across the world. There would also be a timer knob version and a BOL Westinghouse version but with all the same insulation, wash system, racks and sound dampening. How anything else ever flew after this Kitchen-Aid is beyond me.

 

This thread makes me feel sorrow! 

 

[qsd-dan]

How anything else ever flew after this Kitchen-Aid is beyond

Regulations...

 

[Chetlaham]

Not if everyone refused to buy anything else. People were buying tall tubs with similar energy and water usage in the mid 2000s like they were the best thing ever. 

 

Regarding regulations- Power Cleans with a W-P-R used about 5 gallons of water with great results. Power Cleans aren't as water intensive as they are made out to be. If anything, they are the most water saving design ever built hands down when all is taken into account. 

 

[qsd-dan]

Water is just one area under attack, the 1/3 horsepower motors in PC's were another. Point Voyagers used a 1/5 HP motor and that's ancient tech now.

Then, there's the war on noise. Ask most people today about the noise level on a Point Voyager and they'd tell you it sounds like a 2 cycle chainsaw in your ear at full throttle. I could only imagine the look on their face hearing my KDS-18 ROAR to life

 

[Chetlaham]

Part of that comes from energy testing not taking cleaning ability into account. Power Cleans were so good at what did that extra energy was worth it. Power Cleans truly scrubbed everything, flushed it down the drain and were 100% self cleaning. No modern dishwasher does 100% of all 3. 

 

Noise- sadly that was a major consumer driver. Me I'd rather live with an hour of noise than have a dishwasher that washes as well as its decibel level.

 

[qsd-dan]

No argument there, the PC I had cleaned circles around my PV using the normal cycle compared to my PV using the "Pots and Pans" cycle with every single option selected and a lot less crud on the dishes.

But, like a lot of good designs from the past...they are gone forever, never to return.

 

[Chetlaham]

The Power Clean is definitely one design that should be brought back. Although with people so used to tall tub dishwashers, I can't see that ever happening. If everyone were like me Tall-Tubs would have never caught on. In fact I'm willing to accept a single rack dishwasher if it did the dishware from dried on to spotless in 10-15 minutes. 

 

[qsd-dan]

Tall tubs models can definitely hold some large items on the bottom rack but some of their pump/motor designs are kind of on the weak side. Certain designs are a pain to install/remove/service.