GE Dishwasher Spayer Arms are clogged?

Sounds like my Maytag! Nuttin' but trouble but here's a couple of things I do to make it work better.

1. Run a empty load with a bowl with a couple of cups of white vinegar in it sitting on the bottom rack. About 1/2 through the cycle, stop the dishwasher and let it sit for about an hour. Then resume the cycle and let it finish.

2. Take a toothpick or a small metal skewer and pick, punch the debris out of the holes. Most arms can be removed so you can do this at the sink rather than standing on your head. If you can't figure it out, then just clean them where they are. You might have to clean them several times before you get all the gunk out!

3. Check the temp on your hot water heater or use the cycle where the dishwasher heats it's own water if it's not hot enough. Yes, it's not as good on the energy bill but if the water isn't hot enough to properly dissolve the detergent, it's not cleaning well and you're wasting energy rewashing things all the time.

4. What detergent are you using? Liquids are clay based and will plug up your machine. My appliance guy only recommends powders; he doesn't even like the gels and really dislikes the things in the plastic packets that are "supposed" to dissolve. Problem being, they don't and once again, will plug up things.

I use the Electrosol tablets.

In the future, I would either give the dishes a rinse or a scrape to remove the majority of the food residue before the dishes are put in the dishwasher. After all, it is a dish washer not a garbage disposal..... And do the vinegar treatment at least once a month.

Ge Dishwasher Clogged

Your dishwasher empties through a 3/4 inch or so tube into the nipple on the side of the dishwasher. It's imaginable that the disposer or the tube is clogged. Not likely, but worth a quick test. Remove the hose from the disposer and empty it into a bucket. Run the DW and see if it drains better. If so, your problem is isolated to the disposer. Fix it by disconnecting the white plumbing (finger pressure will open the gland nuts) which connects the sink drain to the P-trap. The T pipe has a divertor inside. Look in it for potato peels, etc. easy to clean out. Reassemble, and enjoy. If not the above, then you probably have a stuck pump sensor. In the corner is the round float, which tells the pump to stop pumping water out by falling to the bottom when water leaves, and gravity pulls it down. Lift it straight up, and push it straight down. Make sure it's moving freely. If neither of the 2 above, you may just have a worn out pump of motor. Not worth fixing, IMHO.

get some dishwasher cleaner and run it on empty with just that in it. You can try getting in there and using tooth picks to pick out the food.

I have heard that TANG works...it is suppose to take out the stains.