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title: "Dishwasher drain and pump repair"
description: "Maytag dishwasher drain and pump repair: water standing in the bottom of the tub at the end of a cycle, and more often than not the cause is outside the…"
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date_modified: "2026-09-07"
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# Maytag dishwasher drain and pump repair

### Two ways of saying the same thing, and both are erasable

This maker groups almost all of its dishwasher diagnosis under one heading covering error codes and flashing lights together, because the same condition is a number on a machine with a display and a blink pattern on a machine without one. Neither survives the power being cut, and the reset is the first thing most people try. So the single most useful thing an owner can do is film the panel for ten seconds before touching the breaker — and the second is check the filters, which lift out, rinse under a tap and end a good share of these calls.

What this involves

Filters and hose before the pump, and they end most of these

On a machine with no display, the blink pattern is the code

The high loop lost on a reinstall is the commonest installation cause

Note the lights before anything is switched off

Ten seconds of video is worth more than any description, and a power cycle erases it.

The filters, which lift out

Rinsed under a tap. Loaded, they slow the drain until the machine gives up on it, and that is free to correct.

The hose, the air gap and the high loop

Without the loop the sink drains into the machine. It is the commonest thing lost when a dishwasher is pushed back into its opening.

Then the pump

Measured under load. A pump moves water or it does not, and by this point the path is known to be clear.

### I already reset it and now nothing is showing.

Then we work from behavior instead, which is slower but not hopeless. What helps is your memory of the pattern: how many lights, which ones, and whether they blinked together or in sequence.

### Does a dishwasher really share a drain with the sink?

Very often, and the high loop is what keeps them apart. It is the thing most easily lost when a machine is pushed back into its opening, and without it the sink drains into the dishwasher.

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