Hotpoint DWF61 Soap Tray Spring

First thing we need to do before anything is to remove the little feet that the ash tray sits on when it is open, and bend their tabs out of the way so we can open the ash tray to its fullest open position.

To do this, you'll need to play contorsionist a bit, and pull out the little rubber pads from behind the ash tray, then carefully bend the tabs back into the side wall of the ash tray assembly. You can refer to my pic below to see which tab I mean -- And you can also see the remains of the rubber foot in the background .

Once both of these tabs have been bent out of the way, you can then take the ash tray door, and pull it down towards the floor as much as you can.

Doing this will expose a small pin head sized hole in the side of the ash tray, and also a rounded triangle in the sides of the assembly housing, with a small notch at the top. The springs sit inside of these four holes / notches.

Ok, so now that you've got your springs ready to go, its time to install them. You want to take the end of the spring that has a little bit of a bend to it, and slide it into the hole. This will keep the spring from falling out in a few seconds. Once you've got the springs into the side of the ash tray, you'll want to take a skinny screwdriver, and use it to push the spring up and behind the ash tray where you can grab it with your finger.

Then both slightly close, and move the spring into it's proper slot at the top of the triangle. Repeat for the other side, and close the ash tray. It should hold itself shut, if not, make sure that you've got the coils of the springs oriented towards the firewall.

After you've got that finished, then bend the little tabs for the pads back to where they were, and re-install the little pads. You're good to go!

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1995 Chevrolet 2 Door Tahoe (6.6L LBZ Duramax / ZF6 / NP241 with 1 ton solid axle swap)

hi take top off door works on water presure normally clipped to side at top you will see a round or oval part with wires plugged in look at bottom of that there is a clear tube take it off by sqeezing clip pull off open door and put it back or else machine will just keep filling try back soap tray

when you say leaks from the door i am not sure if this is the case or is water running from the soap tray onto the door making things look that way, Remove and clean your soap tray,it unclips in the centre to remove ,if this does not solve you could try reducing Water pressure to the machine only....Good luck

there might be a fault with your water censor, witch means the much water in the machine

spring on bottom of ice tray has possibly come out of place, mine did, putting the spring back in place did the trick.

Remove the soap tray and clean the orifice.


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on the wf you remove the lid and 2 screws that hold the console on at the front top.also the screws behind the soap tray front.
there are a few tabs at the bottom of the console at the back, carefully remove the console and then you will see there are 2 screws top and bottom of the front panel to remove,
pull the panel up to get it off its tabs.
you may want to unscrew the door lock 2 screws aswell.

Check the wire ring that goes around the rubber seal located just inside the door - we had to call a repair person out one day because our door was leaking, and he told us it's important that the spring be at the top of the door opening to prevent leaks from happening. He had a hard time moving the spring to the top but that seemed to help.

A few months later we found a water leak from our soap tray, so we had the tray replaced under warranty, although I'm not sure that helped because the replacement looked identical to the old one. It only leaked when we used powdered Oxyclean and liquid soap in the tray at the same time; the leaking water ran behind the front cover and dripped out onto the floor all along the front of the machine, mostly near the left corner, but we stopped putting Oxyclean into the tray & the problem stopped. Hope that helps.

THE INNER DOOR PANEL HAS TO BE DISASSEMBLED TO ACESS THE SOAP MECHANISM NO IT DOESNT JUST PULL OUT

What usually happens with this machine is the peg that the spring attaches to breaks. You will need to drill a small hole into a nearby plastic tab and attach one end of the spring into this hole. Job done.