Thread Number: 49116
Kitchenaid Dishwasher gasket question |
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Post# 711158 , Reply# 1   10/24/2013 at 05:38 (3,808 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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It is to seal the cover plate on the drain impeller housing. It probably makes the drain pump a little more effective, but other than that the pumps do seem to work without a perfect gasket in place.
I do think that you are wise to try to put a gasket back in when you are working on one of these DW pumps, unless I have knowledge to the contrary I always try to reassemble things like they were originally built, the orignal design engineers usually knew what they were doing.
John L |