I don’t have a service manual for your dishwasher, so take what I write with a grain of salt. You replaced the high limit thermostat, which prevents overheating the dishwasher, but you haven’t mentioned the thermistor that measures the temperature of the water and provides the input to the control panel for it to determine when to energize the heating element.

 

Thanks! This helps a lot. I am 100% sure the heating element was bad, as it showed OL on my meter when connected. The new one showed resistance and beeped as it should. I will replace the thermistor. Hopefully, this will solve my problem.

 

I just checked. There is no "thermistor" listed for this dishwasher.

 

Hi, check your connections to the element, also check to be sure that you 120volts to the terminals, remove them from the element and use a multi meter to test, you will have to run a heat cycle.
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Thanks. I made sure the connections were all good and tight when I installed the new element and thermostat--twice.

It occurred to me that the element wasn't getting power. Since the element is on the bottom of the machine, and the machine has to running to test it, it is a bit awkward to get a test probe on a connector. I suppose a non-contact voltage tester (kind that beeps) would work well enough. Have to check both sides of course.

What has me curious is how to run just a heat cycle. As far as I can tell, the heat cycle is part of the regular wash cycle, so I would essentially have to run a load of dishes while waiting for (when?) the heat cycle starts. I can do it this way I suppose.

Question: let's say there is no power to the element. What then? Let's say there IS power to the element, what then? I am assuming that the element isn't getting power since it isn't heating up and it is snuggly connected and it's brand new. The old one was bad-- no continuity.

Here is a picture of my machine's control panel. There appears to be no way to turn on "just" a heat cycle. Thanks for taking a look.

 

You can try and run the Heat dry cycle, and during that cycle open the door enough to quickly feel the element and see if it’s hot, that’s the way I checked mine.

 

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I gave it a try, no dice. Element is good, heat not coming on. Eh, dishwashers aren't that expensive and, you know, the dirty dishes just keep coming....

 

Hey BigPlanz, did you finally get a new car? Haven't seen any of your automotive repair stories recently! Good luck with the dishwasher. Sounds like you have it figured out.

 

Yeah my Toyota Avalon hasn't given me any problems at all. Brake pads need to be replaced, but other than that, it runs perfectly. Kind of a let down, after the many little jobs I did on my Lincoln Navigator. I think I will probably just buy another dishwasher. Since I retired I am finding more fun things to do with my time than fix broken stuff. I give it a shot, but if that don't work, forget it, get another one. Keeps the lady of the house happy, you know?

 

Hi, is the a wiring schematic with that machine? also check out Applianceblog website.

 

Dang, man, that's crusty...

 

It is pretty wore out, all right. A lot of loads of dishes have gone through it.

I pulled out and checked the element, it had no continuity, so I put another element in it. That didn't work. Replaced the high limit thermostat, for good measure. No change. I think this thing is now on the Do Not Resuscitate list. I will look into a new one, scratch and dent, while I look up other possible (cheap) fixes.