How to Troubleshoot & Replace Whirlpool AP6014698 / WPR9900669 Spring (Tension Coil)

First one, then the other door spring in our 15-year-old Amana dishwasher broke. After a number of recent home repairs and improvements we hadn't exactly budgeted for a new dishwasher on top of that. The serial and model number on the washer's label had been almost scrubbed off, but I googled for the machine with what was left of the number, and actually found it. Sears no longer had parts for it, but AppliancePartsPro.com did, together with full diagrams. The springs were expensive, $15 a piece, but I ordered them with standard shipping, which AppliacePartsPro.com said takes 1.7 days on average. Amazingly, the springs arrived the next morning!! So I dislodged the washer and pulled it out by several inches. Replacing the old broken springs was easy, a 10 minute job. And now the was the washer door has spring action again instead of crashing down every time we open it. So the repair cost us under $40 instead of the thousand bucks for a new one. We're very impressed with AppliancePartsPro.com huge selection of hard-to-find parts and the super-fast shipping! 

Bought two new ones and fit and work just fine.thanks 

Removed top and bottom screws. Removed bottom panel. Pulled out dishwasher slightly. Found broken screw and plastic connector. Put new spring in the reset old plastic connector and then reversed earlier steps. 

Easy repair! Removed 2 screws to move dishwasher out & replaced spring. Tension much tighter on new spring so needed to make adjustment to remaining spring to compensate. 5 minute repair!