Hello,

Our Kenmore dishwasher has intermittently stopped washing dishes.

When a wash cycle is started, I can hear the valve click open and water entering the dishwasher. After the water enters, the dishwasher will sit still for a minute. Sometimes the pump will start pumping, sometimes it won't.

I have pulled the dishwasher out from under the counter and put my hand on the pump/motor. On the cycles where the pump doesn't work, you can feel it try to start, but after a second or two it gives up. Sometimes you can shake it a bit to get it started, but maybe that's just my imagination and it was going to start anyway.

Water will drain like normal if the cycle is cancelled.

Is this a bad pump/motor? Or maybe a related switch or circuit board?



Thanks,
Ed