Thread Number: 40144
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
I bought a Maytag dishwasher yesterday... and shot a video today. |
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Post# 594293   5/4/2012 at 22:54 (4,346 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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Inspired by Pete (Rollermatic's) recent 1972 Maytag portable dishwasher find, this prompted me to search Craigs List for Maytag dishwashers... and for some silly reason, go BUY one! OY!! So here it is folks, a pretty basic Maytag portable reverse rack dishwasher, 19 years newer then Pete's. Model LWC 204, built March 1991. As you will see in the video, some of the little water jet nozzles are clogged, which effects the spray arm rotation. Oh, did I mention I ran it with the door open? Enjoy! Kevin |
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Post# 594338 , Reply# 2   5/5/2012 at 03:06 (4,346 days old) by dishwashercrazy (West Peoria, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 594351 , Reply# 3   5/5/2012 at 05:25 (4,345 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida)   |   | |
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Methinks that you could take the wash arms and tower out and take a handy dandy toothpick and unclog the jets. Also the tower unscrews from the power module and unscrew the screws holding down the module cover and pull out the filter and see fits clogged too...very easy to do! I am not surprised all the water is coming out of the tower like that.
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Post# 594354 , Reply# 4   5/5/2012 at 05:50 (4,345 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 594368 , Reply# 5   5/5/2012 at 08:25 (4,345 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 594389 , Reply# 6   5/5/2012 at 09:41 (4,345 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 594393 , Reply# 7   5/5/2012 at 09:58 (4,345 days old) by dishwasherfan (Phoenix, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 594453 , Reply# 8   5/5/2012 at 18:49 (4,345 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 594468 , Reply# 9   5/5/2012 at 22:14 (4,345 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 594515 , Reply# 10   5/6/2012 at 05:15 (4,345 days old) by rollermatic (cincinnati)   |   | |
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Post# 594669 , Reply# 12   5/6/2012 at 18:32 (4,344 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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WOW Kevin this is always fun, I have done this with old WP and KA top loading portables and the water goes 15-20 feet in the air. The blocked holes in the wash-arms are the likely reason the wash arm didn't rotate more predictably, although MT DW RR dishwashers are not one of the most fun machines to see operating with the door open as they use such a fine spray. The pump is working fine as shown by how far the water fly's, if you keep the garden hose running into the bottom of the machine you would actually be able to water the lawn. LOL, You can also attach the hose to the drain line because the pump reverses and will actually suck the water into the DW as it is running. We used to get Service Calls for MT RR DWs that were flooding kitchens because they were connected to the disposer and the user had forgotten to clear the disposer before starting the DW. After the DW drained and if the water backed up in the sink the drain pump would quickly suck the dirty water back into the DW and it would flood out under the door. MT was to cheap to install a drain check valve, this little flooding trick was something that GEs, WPs and of coerce KAs would never do as they were better designed. |