5KSB1320BOB0 KitchenAid Blender - Overview

All I had to do was replace the part! Service was excellent! Ordered the part and had it the next day and my blender was up and running!!

Piece of cake. Part was expensive and shipping likewise. Very fast

First I disconnected the washer and used a shop vac to suck out remaining water throught the effluent tube. I then pulled the washer out from the wall and opened up the panel in the back where I saw a penney in the baffeled catch basin and, a wad of lint wrapped around what looked like three 7" wires. I opened up the top with the putty ... Read more knife and flipped it bacl. I then proceded to remove the top sections of the tub (soap/bleach dispenser, etc) then I removed the dome using a stubby screwdriver to 'pop' the internal catches. The next thing to come out was the perforated baffel. I could see the blockage through the drain holes in the bottom of the tub. I made a hook out of a coat hanger to extract the wad and 'wires'. Also, a pair of needle nose plires were used to pull the wires through the tub holes. Rhe unit was then re-assembled and has worked fine since. The 'wires', it turned out, were identified by my wife as the wires from some of her underwire bras! They will get handwashed henceforth!