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Hi! I hope you can help! I have a GE Nautilus Portable dishwasher Model No. GSC3200G (I've also seen it listed as GSC3200JBB). Its about 4 years old. Its the kind you roll up to the kitchen sink, and attach the 2-way hose attachment to the faucet, and then turn on the hot water.
It doesn't drain. It fills no problem, but when it gets to the cycle where the water is supposed to empty into the sink, the motor strains to comply, but no water comes out the faucet/hose opening. The water fills up pretty high inside the dishwasher and leaks out from around the door. Lots of water on the floor!
The dishes hadn't been getting really clean, lots of food residue left on them. So I thought I needed to run a couple of cycles with the washer empty to clean it out. I figured the drain trap might be clogged. That happened once before and running it empty seemed to do the trick. Though I was not having a problem with the dishwasher draining at that that time.
I didn't discover that problem until after I ran the cycle to clean it out this time.
I've read other similar posts, and they talk about checking the selenoid, or the motor, or the pump, or the drain plug, or to check to make sure the hoses aren't blocked or crimped, but I do not know how to get at any of these things.
The hoses connect right to the sink, and they're fine, on the outside anyway. There is a filter, of sorts, (what I referred to above as the drain trap) along the lower back wall, that looks like there's gunk in it. Less since I ran it through a cycle, but still some there. Logic tells me to take that off and clean it, but it is bolted down (looked like Phillips Heads at first). so I can't get it out.
I scooped as much water out as I could get, along with any floating pieces of debris that may have been clogging the holes, and got released through the cycle. As far as I could see, everything looked pretty good. So I thought I'd run a cleaning cycle again. Maybe it would flush it out. But when it got to the first drain cycle where the ostensibly dirty sudsy water would be released into the sink, just the sound of the motor working, but no water coming out.
I turned it off, so it won't fill up and leak all over the floor again. I at least stopped it before that happened, but obviously there is a big problem!
I have dishes that need washing! I need my dishwasher to work!
And remember this is a portable, so no air gap, and no issue with the sink drain. Whatever changes the cycle and makes the dirty water discharge out of the washer into the sink is at fault, or something is blocked somewhere.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Sugar Rose
It doesn't drain. It fills no problem, but when it gets to the cycle where the water is supposed to empty into the sink, the motor strains to comply, but no water comes out the faucet/hose opening. The water fills up pretty high inside the dishwasher and leaks out from around the door. Lots of water on the floor!
The dishes hadn't been getting really clean, lots of food residue left on them. So I thought I needed to run a couple of cycles with the washer empty to clean it out. I figured the drain trap might be clogged. That happened once before and running it empty seemed to do the trick. Though I was not having a problem with the dishwasher draining at that that time.
I didn't discover that problem until after I ran the cycle to clean it out this time.
I've read other similar posts, and they talk about checking the selenoid, or the motor, or the pump, or the drain plug, or to check to make sure the hoses aren't blocked or crimped, but I do not know how to get at any of these things.
The hoses connect right to the sink, and they're fine, on the outside anyway. There is a filter, of sorts, (what I referred to above as the drain trap) along the lower back wall, that looks like there's gunk in it. Less since I ran it through a cycle, but still some there. Logic tells me to take that off and clean it, but it is bolted down (looked like Phillips Heads at first). so I can't get it out.
I scooped as much water out as I could get, along with any floating pieces of debris that may have been clogging the holes, and got released through the cycle. As far as I could see, everything looked pretty good. So I thought I'd run a cleaning cycle again. Maybe it would flush it out. But when it got to the first drain cycle where the ostensibly dirty sudsy water would be released into the sink, just the sound of the motor working, but no water coming out.
I turned it off, so it won't fill up and leak all over the floor again. I at least stopped it before that happened, but obviously there is a big problem!
I have dishes that need washing! I need my dishwasher to work!
And remember this is a portable, so no air gap, and no issue with the sink drain. Whatever changes the cycle and makes the dirty water discharge out of the washer into the sink is at fault, or something is blocked somewhere.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Sugar Rose
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