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My Maytag Quietseries is only 3 yrs old (bought Sept '02). Just yesterday we realized it wasen't washing any dishes but it will fill up with water, sit there and hum for the duration of the wash and empty out (it did this for each cycle).
There is nothing wrong with the motor (that was spinning), it was the hub that connects the motor spindle to the washer impeller. Maytag, in all of there engineering excellence, actually designed a metal motor spindle with male threads that would mate to a PLASTIC hub (with female threads). Now I'm an engineer and I cant for the life of me understand why a multimillion dollar manufactuerer would do something like that. I guess they can save $0.03/pc if they mold them rather than machine them.
What QC dept they have are probebly busy inspecting the replacment part that they sell because the hub replacment was actually metal.
I dont know if they continue to manufacture these plastic hubs or not but if you own one of these dishwashers its only a $20 replacment piece (with instructions):
I saw someone had a similar thread and dropped them an email to see how they worked it out. Turns out the repairman told them a gear was stripped and it would cost more to fix than replace (sounds a lot like what happened to mine except there is no gear in the assembly - its a direct drive). So they bought anything that WASEN'T a Maytag!! Not a bad decision but if you want to try to squeeze at least 5yrs from your machine remember this thread.
There is nothing wrong with the motor (that was spinning), it was the hub that connects the motor spindle to the washer impeller. Maytag, in all of there engineering excellence, actually designed a metal motor spindle with male threads that would mate to a PLASTIC hub (with female threads). Now I'm an engineer and I cant for the life of me understand why a multimillion dollar manufactuerer would do something like that. I guess they can save $0.03/pc if they mold them rather than machine them.
What QC dept they have are probebly busy inspecting the replacment part that they sell because the hub replacment was actually metal.
I dont know if they continue to manufacture these plastic hubs or not but if you own one of these dishwashers its only a $20 replacment piece (with instructions):
I saw someone had a similar thread and dropped them an email to see how they worked it out. Turns out the repairman told them a gear was stripped and it would cost more to fix than replace (sounds a lot like what happened to mine except there is no gear in the assembly - its a direct drive). So they bought anything that WASEN'T a Maytag!! Not a bad decision but if you want to try to squeeze at least 5yrs from your machine remember this thread.