Whirlpool 8268383 Chopper Blade for Dish Washer

Everyone can fix their dishwasher!!! Everyone can fix their dishwasher. Over time the bottom of the Kenmore or Whirlpool dishwasher with a chopper will start to clog or “slime” up. This is often evident by the failure of the dishes to rinse cleanly. The other way to tell is the load grinding noise at the start of the wash cycle. This is a key indicator that your chopper is either clogged or broken.This is a very easy fix and I’ve changed mine twice. Follow the steps below and this repair can be done in 10…

Unnecessary part? Original part and I’m sure it will fit perfect, however I’m currently running my d/w without it due to the old chopper falling apart and hesitant to install it. The reason is it is just a such poor design (boo Whirlpool) that will inevitably clog rather sooner than later. It is not much of a chopper and solid pieces such as small seeds will be trapped by and stuck in the screen forever until you take it out and punch them out with a toothpick or the like. It is not super-difficult to remove it…

Spring rusted away in less than a year. These are not OEM quality. Mine was junk in a year. There were two major failures.First the chopper blades don’t ride on the screen so no scissor action on food particles. You shouldn’t have to clean this part if it is functioning correctly. I did, so I tweaked the blades so that they would skim the screen. This requires a careful bit of bending because you want the whole blade to be skimming the screen. Worked great…Then it stopped working again. This time with a…