How to Troubleshoot & Replace Ge AP4412252 / WD28X10215 Silverware Basket Assembly

Lowered front legs, removed latch, then disassembled front door to find broken latch. Ordered needed parts and reassembled. 

We unscrewed the screws on the inside panel of the door. This revealed the screws necessary to remove to change the soap dispenser assembly. With two of us working together it took about 10 minutes. It was straight forward. 

Easy replacement. 

I ordered the replacement part and pulled up the service manual online. Always unplug your appliance to make any repairs. Using a drill with a phillips head screw bit, I removed the front of the dishwasher by unscrewing the six lower screws from the inside of the door. There is a styrofoam cover to minimize noise, keep that with the door and screws. The detergent assembly was visible at this point. There were two wires to pull off the detergent assembly. You just note which color goes in front and which one back and then pull the them off by the attached tab. The detergent assembly is attached with 4 screws. You just remove them and the brackets come off. It's free to be removed. Insert the new detergent dispenser reattach the brackets to the new part with the same screws. Reattach the 2 wires. Put the styrofoam cover and front back on, reattaching using the same 6 screws removed earlier. Plug back in and fire it up to see if your repair worked! 

Installed new heating element and both parts in #279769 (thermal cutoff and HL t-stat). Troubleshooting: Tested continuity at element (bad), thermal fuse (good), thermal cutoff (bad) and HL t-stat (good). Replaced both parts in #279769, just in case + the new element . Got spare thermal fuse just in case. All worked great. Took about 1 hour, but I'm slow. Your videos are great! 

The new basket was a perfect fit for my machine. 

Replacement part. 

Replaced. 

Put a new one in. 

Quick easy order with appliance number, quick delivery, job done!