Been a long week, now my dishwasher acts up!

[mattl]

Has a large after funeral group here Monday, house guests, a bad cold/flu put me in bed till today when I went in to work only to come home a bit early. Earlier in the week I discovered my GE dishwasher was not draining, and I have no idea how many of the loads done Monday are in need of redoing. Lots of people loaded lots of dishes and put some away. I guess I'll redo what ever I can recall using, only use paper for cookouts in the summer.

Anyway trying to recall but I think that more recent vintage GEs used a separate pump to drain, correct? I seem to recall one of my GE units had a secondary pump , but I might be mistaken. This is the first issue I've had with this machine in 5 or 6 years I've had it. During the drain cycle it's silent so no draining. Hopefully it's a secondary pump and not the main unit reversing, that would be a headache.

Still too under the weather to get the model number and research it, I'm in bed with mt iPad, but hoping someone might know...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sorry for all of the misfortune

I think the secondary pump was used to drain the main pump chamber at two points in the cycle to remove the quart of water retained after each drain period.

 

[super32]

Oh just go get a new one! You know you want to anyway....lol

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sorry you are so sick. Hope you feel better soon.

Did you get a Foo Shot? I hope it's just a bad cold because if you have had the Foo for more than two days it's too late to get the doctor to prescribe Tamiflu to lessen the severity and shorten the duration. Don't worry about the dw until you have the strength to get out of bed and take care of yourself, but it is one of those annoyances you can't help tinking about when you can't do much else besides feel miserable. Do you have any chicken soup or bouillon cubes? It might help and couldn't hurt.

Foo is the way of saying Flu when you have a clogged nose, like code for cold, as in "I hab a code." In Yiddish it is known as "fonfing" and a person who talks like that all of the time is known as a "fonfer."

 

[mattl]

Thanks for the good thoughts, feeling better.  Did a bit of research and it looks like a pretty common pump was used in the PDW7800 that I have.  Still not up to pulling the unit out, maybe Monday, so I'll know more then.  Prices seem to be hovering around $50 for the pump with motor, will do some searching.  That was the case with my Duet pump was in the $50 range from Whirlpool, but the exact same pump was used in a GE machine and could be found for $19 under their part number.

 

Super32  you are wrong on that one, I'm totally happy with this machine.  It used a good amount of water, and does a load on the full cycle in 45-55 minutes, and cleans most everything i toss at it very well.  It wasn't an expensive machine when I bought it, if I recall $450-500 range, but it had all the TOL features I was after, one of them that i think is harder to find these days, I can fold down all the tines in the racks and have a totally flat surface for big things.  So I intend to keep this puppy going as long as I can.