Fix Your Dishwasher | Dishwasher Won't Drain | Dishwasher Smells Bad

Welcome back guys it's the Tightwad and today we're working on our dishwasher. Have you ever had an issue where your dishwasher didn't quite drain correctly or maybe there was still a funky smell after the cycle is run? I'm gonna show you today how to fix that. We just finished a load this morning and it had a little bit of a funky smell to it so I'm gonna go ahead and pull out the bottom rack and move it out of the way. Different manufacturers are set up differently. Some of them have a piece that runs from here all the way at the back of your dishwasher and then comes to where my top spout is here. This one actually has those tubes inside the wall of the dishwasher so you may have to remove a little bit more than I'm doing today. I'm gonna start by removing this piece right here. This is the piece that spins around and sprays the water everywhere and you can see on mine it has a clip on each side so I can just reach under here and pull this clip out and that lifts right off. Now we're left with this piece here and this one lifts up and turns and then it lifts out. So we can see we have some junk built up down in there. We do pre-rinse our dishes but we don't completely wash them so there's other things that are left on the dishes that end up accumulating down in here. A lot of times people leave stickers on dishes before washing them for the first time and the stickers end up down in here and that's actually the number one thing that clogs up the bottom of dishwashers. So this whole piece on mine lifts out and you can also check down in here to make sure there's no buildup in here as well. I may need to get a paper towel down in here and wipe up some of that also. I just brought this piece over to the sink. I'm gonna remove some of that stuff by hand and then I'm gonna rinse it. There's a screen around the outside I'm gonna rinse from the bottom side and it should release all of that gunk and it should go right down the drain or you can put your strainer in if you have a little bit heavier load in here to catch some of the stuff so you can throw it away. With everything cleaned up it's time to reassemble. So this part goes in first. This piece here goes over the hole in the back side of mine so it goes in with this piece on the back and this piece also in the back and it just slides right down. Make sure it has a nice tight fit and then this piece slides in. So start with this one at about 10 o'clock and then rotate it back to the front and you should feel it lock into place. And then this piece goes right down on top and you just give it a little push to re-engage those clips and then go ahead and give it a spin to make sure it spins freely. While we're in here I'll tell you what a couple other things are. This is what sprays the water upward onto the dishes. There's another one at the top that sprays water down. This is your heating element that helps with drying so if your dishwasher is not drying you can replace this heating element fairly easily. This is the float to tell it when there's enough water in here to get started. So this piece floats up and down as you wash your dishes. So now I'm going to get my dishwasher reassembled, wash this load again and we'll have a nice fresh smelling smoothly draining dishwasher. If you're having a issue with your dishwasher leaking click the video shown in the top right corner right now. It's a fairly easy fix and it costs about 10 or 15 bucks to get it fixed. So don't waste your money on service calls for easy maintenance on your appliances. If you found this video helpful give it a thumbs up and go ahead and subscribe to my channel. I have lots of appliance repairs and other DIY stuff you can do around your home and I give very clear step-by-step instructions. If you want to order a Tightwad DIY t-shirt you can click the link in the description and it will take you right to a site where you can order those. Click any of the videos shown on the screen right now and they'll open right up on your device and as always I hope you guys have a great day.