Do-It-Yourself Story

Replaced the pump and drain hose. The pump was easy. The replacement parts were identical to the bad parts. The drain hose was full of gook and smelled awful so I decided to replace that as well. The tag on the new hose alerted me to the procedure for installing a drain hose. If your dishwasher is not vented you need to create a high hose loop so that excess particles from the garbage disposal or dishwasher don't stay in the hose. The person that installed the dishwasher failed to do this which I am sure caused the pump to fail and the nasty situation with the hose. The dishwasher is only about 2 1/2 years old and the pump should not have failed so soon. I am confident, after adding the high hose loop, that the dishwasher will now have its proper life expectancy.