Replace shaft sleeve 4176313 on kfp600 - KitchenAid Food Processors

You will probably need to force the blade off the shaft somehow. If you over work them the blade can partly turn and lock onto the plastic shaft sleeve. A Kitchen Aid Authorised repairer will have figured out a way to remove it by now because it's been happening for years. Expect to replace the blade or the sleeve or both, once it's happened it's easier to happen a second time unless you replace parts.

If the blade is stuck on then there is likely damage to the hole inside the blade and the shaft sleeve it fits on to so you should expect to replace both or it's going to happen again and again. Brute force is going to be the answer. I have a chain that I wrap around the blade shaft where it goes onto the motor sleeve. Sometimes I secure it with a shackle or radiator hose clip then attach the other end of my chain to my workbench and accelerate the processor motor assembly away. Chain goes tight, big thump and blade flies off.

Hi Eric, you are going to have to get the motor out and yes it will be because of the spilled liquid fusing/rusting the motor armature shaft into the bronze bush. Those motors are very expensive so worth a go to save it. You will have to get the plastic sleeve off that shaft first before you can get the motor out. Removal will destroy the sleeve. I drill a hole through the top of the sleeve, side to side leaving about 5mm of meat at the top. I shackle a chain through it and attach it to my bench leg and then accelerate the whole motor unit away in a straight line. The shaft needs to be pointing at the attachment point on the bench or it can slip from your hands creating more grief. It will only take 1 to 3 pulls, 1st one doesn't work do it harder, same with second pull and harder for the 3rd. The chain needs to have welded links or the chain will break. That is far the easiest removal method I have found, other methods could involve hacksawing it down one side being careful not to damage the metal shaft or melting a line down 1 side to split it open with a soldering iron. Once that is off then remove base, detach motor wires from pcb and remove the screws under the plastic caps on top of the top housing. Then it will be working away with levers and a spanner on the shaft and CRC, sweat and time. If you strike trouble after that email me
screaming_skull@hotmail.com Cheers Ross

The shaft sleeve (the one on the motor shaft) is likely damaged. The correct solution is a new shaft sleeve and chopping blade. If you do not replace them both together the one you do not replace will damage the other one again.

Here is a link to the KFP600 User manual on KitchenAids website:
http://shared.whirlpoolcorp.com/assets/pdfs/literature/Instructions%20and%20Recipes%20-%209701758.pdf

If you ever need any parts, remember us at The Mending Shed, we can repair anything under the moon, and we are a Authorized KitchenAid service center, we carry all of the parts for their food processors.

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Yes it is a motor shaft sleeve, it is a normal wear and tear part, try K/A or their service agent closest to you.

Have you tried heating the sleeve with a torch and then sliding it on?

If the motor is running, the problem can be that the motor shaft is spinning inside the drive sleeve. Replace the sleeve. That is more common than a motor failure.

I don't know about the little lip you're referring to, but the central spindle that comes up from the base of our KitchenAid 12 cups food processor KFP750WH0 splintered and broke while we were using it. We ordered a replacement motor sleeve shaft part number KA8211849 from the Gourmet Depot for $4.95 plus $3.50 s/h. Removing the broken plastic sleeve shaft was the difficulty; it isn't glued or screwed on but somehow it didn't want to be pulled, pried, or cut off. With the help of our neighbor fix-it man and all four of us working at it with screwdrivers, we got the old broken part up and off. Pushing the new one onto the metal motor shaft was easy, and it was fixed!

My husband solved this problem...He used a screw to drill it into the top; of the sleeve and the sleeve eventually popped off.