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AlanS  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:42:31 PM(UTC)
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OK...received a Dual Wax Motor Conversion. This seems to replace the two wax motors with ONE. There is a jumper cable to re-wire the 4 wires (Two from each motor) to one motor. For the Rinse Aid motor (not to be used), there is a red and grey wire. The grey wire splits and runs to one of the leads on the 'other' motor (dispenser). There is also a white wire that runs to the dispenser. So, got it? Red and grey to bottom motor...white and grey (same line as the other grey) to the top motor.
Instructions say:
*Attach 1 white wire lead to the wax motor. Tape off the remaining white wire lead to the harness.
*Take the 2 remaining wires and plug them into the male ends of the jumper cable (supplied- Just a Y cable that turns two leads to one-I will assume this is for the two grey wires? Which are on the same line).
*Attach the female end of the jumper cable to the remaining terminal of the wax motor.
SO...I only have ONE WHITE WIRE...ONE RED WIRE and TWO GREY WIRES. Do they want the white and grey to the motor and hide the red? IS that the 'other white'?
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Ken P.  
#2 Posted : Sunday, March 29, 2009 8:13:24 AM(UTC)
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I, too, got the conversion kit but my instructions were in FRENCH!. I appreciate your quoting the english version. FWIW, I tied the two gray wires together with the jumper (though they were already jumpered together) and taped off the red. I think the single motor needs actuation from both the red and white circuit but without further knowledeg of these it could cause a veyy bad thing to happen.
kcomp1863  
#3 Posted : Friday, October 14, 2011 4:23:02 PM(UTC)
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Just some more clarification on the use of this kit, for others facing the same problems with the pathetic instruction sheet included. The retainer assembly and rinse aid tank are not interchangable individually with the original parts. If you plan on just using the new tank with the original dual wax motor retainer assembly, it won't work! There will be alignment and clearance issues. Just use the entire kit and convert to a single wax motor actuation setup. The "white" wires mentioned in the instruction sheet, actually refer to the original double tandem grey or white wires that orignally connected both original wax motors to the door switch. They're called white in the instructions, because the service manual schematic shows them as white or grey, depending on your specific model! So don't confuse this with the actual single white lead with orange stripe. Use only 1 of the original grey(white) double wire connectors on the new wax motor terminal and tape the other one back (NOT TO BE USED NOW), then connect the original white/orange and pink leads to the double end of the included blue "Y" jumper. Connect the other end of this jumper to the remaining wax motor terminal. Now the timer will provide power to this new single wax motor, Correction to my earlier post! The new latching retainer assembly locks out the rinse aid arm during the intial operation of the detergent lid, after the double mechanism operates the first time, then the rinse aid arm is free to operate during the rinse cycle. SOOO... the key is, as long as the detergent door is latched shut, the rinse aid arm is locked out.

Assembly of the new retainer took me a little while to figure out, since the instruction sheet is written assuming that is in the kit as a completed assembly. IT IS NOT! If any one needs help putting it together, I can send a picture of the complete assembly. Hope this clarifies things more for the rest of you folks!

One other difference with this kit from the original, that I noticed, is this... if you use the original detergent door latch, you have to depress the detergent latch while closing the lid. Originally all you did was push the detergent lid closed after filling...can't do that now! the latch is slightly higher when released than originally. So...if you use this kit, USE ALL THE NEW PARTS, the new latch is different than the original and will restore the push to close and latch feature.
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