Whirlpool W11200218 Stand Mixer Planetary Gear Grease OEM Part

My KitchenAid Professional Series 6 mixer which is about 20 years old suddenly stopped working. The motor would run but the beater would not complete a full circle without a push from me. I took the gearbox apart to figure out why the beater would not turn and discovered that the worm follower gear had most of the teeth stripped from it. I believe this was caused by a lack of grease. As I removed the gearbox cover, I noticed that most all the grease had been thrown to one side of the gearbox. Very little grease was on the gears themselves. Some research lead me to AppliancePartsPros.com website and the very helpful videos. I ordered the gear and grease, then disassembled and thoroughly cleaned all the parts as instructed in the video. I also found flour and sugar in the On/Off slide control which had not been working smoothly for quite some time and took that apart and cleaned it up also. When the gear and grease arrived, I partially assembled the gearbox without grease and manually tested (no electrical power) to make sure everything worked properly. I disassembled and started again using the grease as instructed in the video. About an hour later,I had everything back together except for the cover. I ran the mixer for about 15 minutes at various speeds, then opened the gearbox to check that all the gears were still covered with grease. They were not. I added more grease, closed the gearbox, and ran the mixer again. I opened the gearbox again the grease covered all the gears. The mixer is now working great. Hopefully, I can get another 20 years out of it. Thank you AppliancePartsPros.com.

Checked out You tube video. Easy tune up. One gasket was damaged and I did not notice that the brush holders has no brushes. I believe a quick call to Appliance parts pros will fix this, besides I need a few more parts. I expect to get another 20+ years from this KitchenAide mixer, once repairs are competed. Watch out for the single lock washer located on the rear upper housing screw, you don't want to lose this!

Being somewhat handy I told I would be glad to take a look and see if there was something I could do. Got the mixer home and found the transmission housing broken and front bearing breaking up also found worm gear assemble chewed up some. Found Appliance Parts Pro online and was able to all the parts needed to make what I am sure will be a long lasting repair. Once unit was cleaned of all the old grease and particles from bearing, new parts and appliance grease was added to complete the repair. Return to my friend in great working order. She was so please she called later in the day to say she had made a big batch of Pumpkin bread, Yum, thanks for your quick shipping and having everything I needed to do this project. From the time I took the mixer, diagnosed and order parts and made the repairs, I had the mixer back to her in 7 days, Thanks again your are definitely in my favorites.

Took mixer apart and replaced worm gear and worm gear bracket and bearing. Replaced planetary grease to make sure broken teeth didn't cause further damage.

First, I went on YouTube and found a site that showed how to replace the planetary for my mixer. We have ordered planetary form AppliancePartsPros. We followed the direction given on youtube and this fixed my mixer.