Whirlpool 901111 Door Spring OEM Part

These springs work great but I did find some issues when installing them. Here's what I did: 1) Turn off the power to the dishwasher at the circuit breaker or fuse panel. Once you remove the kick panel there are a lot of exposed wires that carry live power. 2) Remove the kick panel. There are 4 screws (on mine one was missing). A nut driver makes it much easier. A flat blade screwdriver can be used but it will be much more frustrating. 3) Latch the dishwasher door and remove the access covers for the springs that are held in place by one screw. 4) Unhook the old spring at the bottom first then push it up and over to to get the top out. A flat blade screwdriver can help with this. 5) (optional) On my dishwasher the clearance on the sides was such that I had to trim the plastic bushing a bit with a knife so it would fit between the spring arm and the cabinet. The old bushing didn't have the extra plastic that protects against the end of the spring scrapping on the cabinet. If you take off a small amount like an 1/8" it will fit and still protect the spring. 6) Unhook the door latch so you can open it an inch or two. This moves the spring arm back in front of the access door and makes is easier to install the new spring. 7) Insert the new spring through the access opening and put the top of the new spring on first. It may require a little wiggling but it should pop in and then you can pull it down to seat it in the groove. Make sure to put it in the front opening as described on the instruction sheet. 8) Now latch the door closed again and pull down on the bottom of the spring to hook it under the first hole, closest to the front of the machine. 9) Now do steps 1-3 in reverse order to reassemble everything and finish the job.

Removed lower two cover panels to expose the springs, one on each side. Removed the stretched springs and old worn plastic guides on the upper spring attaching point. Put the plastic guide on the new spring partially seeing where there is open space on the edge of the guide. Note that the upper spring hole is oblong at the top of the spring so put the guide in the round part. Since I did not pull the dishwasher out from the counter it took some care to get the upper part of the spring and plastic guide seated properly with a screwdriver due to clearance issues. With a flat blade screwdriver the bottom of the spring is easily seated in the retaining hole. Reattached the lower cover panels using a nut driver or screwdriver.

We ordered the 3 door springs (that our Maytag repair could not find).everything worked fine. and found them right away on appliancepartpros.com. My husband put them on and I was the flashlight holder!

Replaced the broken spring with a new one after watching a you tube video on how to go about it. I didn't have to pull out my dishwasher to to the repair. That saved a lot of time to do the repair.

Had to pull dishwasher out about 2 inchs and put the new spring on. It was a little difficult getting things lined back up. But I finished ok. Now the door is ok.