Turbidity Sensor

1. turn off power
2. turn off water
3. vacuum the DW sump
4. disconnect water at DW and drain under sink
5. vacuum drain hose
6. unscrew DW from counter and slide out, be careful to keep insulation from tearing
7. remove lower shelf
8. turn DW on side to expose bottom
9. use pliers to pull spade connectors from sensor and diverter
10. remove each and dry openings
11.use faucet stem grease or vegetabvle oil to lubericate the O rings
12. replace parts
13. reverse installation sequence above
14. load DW withdishes and run through a cycle

We've had several warranty calls on this machine in the first year ... about 4-5 total. They did several small things before they changed the "motor" 6 months ago. This time the repair was out of warranty. The serviceman said it must be the intake pump motor this time. He said the repair would be over $400. My husband and I decided that we would pull the entire motor unit, because neither of us could see how they changed the motor 6 months ago without pulling the machine out from the wall. That is when it hit us that they must've just changed out the intake pump motor and not the motor itself the time before. When my husband handed me the motor to clean, I heard some metal clinking around inside it. I opened it up and found the chopper assembly in pieces. No wonder the top sprayer wasn't spinning and the dishes weren't getting clean. The actual job would've taken about half the time that it did, because the part could've easily been replaced without pulling the unit out. We changed the soil sensor/thermistor assembly just because we figured it couldn't hurt to change it too.