GTW460AMJ5WW General Electric Washer - Instructions

Turn off hot and cold water supply valves feeding washer.
Disconnect both water hoses from washing machine.
Remove two screws (one on each side) from upper silver colored metal plate on back of washer to allow access to (blue) water inlet valve.
Slightly lift the bottom portion of metal plate and slide to release hooks for easy removal.
Pull back and tilt forward plastic control panel to get it out of your way.
Disconnect two electrical connections (one on each side) of water inlet valve. One of these came off easily but the other one was stubborn and I had to force it off with a screw driver. If there is an easier way I don't know what it is.
Remove two screws from water inlet valve. (one on each side)
Gently pull up on stainless steel water temperature sensor located in the middle of the water inlet control valve. It has a black wire connected to it so be careful.
Once you have disconnect the sensor you can remove the water inlet valve.
If you look closely you will see a small blue O-ring in the hole where you removed the water temp sensor from the water inlet valve.
The new valve DOES NOT come with a replacement O-ring so you
will have to re-use the old one. I used a small jeweler's screwdriver to get the old out of the hole.
Don't forget to install the O-ring or your washer WILL leak!
Put everything back together in reverse order.
Check hose connections for leaks.
Hope this helps somebody. Wish I had known about the O-ring. It would have saved me a headache.

We had a steady drip of water coming from the top of the washer. I felt around to find that it was coming from the blue plastic piece from which the water comes when the washer is filling, which is the water inlet valve assembly. There was no water leaking from the hoses, and so I figured that the problem must be the water inlet valve. It was a very easy replacement:

1. Unplug the washer from the electrical outlet.
2. Turn off the water supply to the washer.
3. Disconnect the hoses directly at the back of the washer, remembering which one was on which side. You can also attach them to the new water inlet valve assembly at this time, as it can be installed with the hoses on.
4. Remove the two vertical screws at the back of the washer. They are on the far sides. Use a quarter inch bit to remove them. Keep them nearby.
5. You can now gently remove the control panel top by pulling up and toward the back of the machine. Be gentle so that you do not pull up any wires or dislodge any hoses!
6. You will see two electrical plugs attached to the inlet valves. Gently unplug them. One of them has a plastic tab holding it on, so pull that up carefully as you slide it off.
7. There is a small circular plug in the center of the blue inlet valve assembly. Gently remove it by prying it up from the metal circle. There is also a small rubber o-ring that should still be attached to that plug, but it might have come loose and still be in the water inlet valve contraption, so pull it out with something and stick it back on the plug with the circle metal piece.
8. Remove two small screws that are near each other that hold the blue inlet valve assembly in place. There is also a metal bracket holding it there that will come loose once these screws are removed.
9. You can now remove the entire blue plastic piece by rotating it and pulling through the hole.
10. Put the new water inlet valve in, and plug everything in the way it was, securely fastening screws and hoses. Be sure that no other hoses or wires came loose from the control panel.
11. Plug the washer back into the power, turn the water back on, and that should be it!

Following directions from a Youtube video.

Replacement was extremely easy:
1. Shutoff Water Valves
2. Removed hoses from Washer
3. Removed two screws to get control unit off.
4. Removed wires to valve assembly.
5. Removed Screw holding assembly in place.
6. Removed temp sensor from assembly.
7. Unit came right out and reversed the process for replacement Unit.
8. Very easy...

REALLY easy-
Just unscrewed the two screws with a Phillips, slid the old one out, the new one set in perfectly, and used the same screws to hold it in place. 2 minute task total.

IF you do the same repair, SAVE THE LITTLE O-RING that is inside the old part where the temperature probe stick in (If that is indeed what it is). It's chrome in color. New part does NOT come with that O-ring

I watched a youtube video to see how others performed the repair. My washer was a little different than in the videos but the inlet valve was very easy to access once I pulled the washer out of it's "nook". I took off the back panel of the control "box" (4 screws). Then accessed the valve which was held in place with two screws. The screws were buried behind a few wires so they were a little difficult to access but not impossible. I did need to use my 1/4" box end wrench as my son had borrowed my socket set.

The people at PartsSelect were helpful in selecting the right part and the repair is working fine. My wife is happy.

Took 4 screws out of back of control panel. Tested old capacitor. Installed new one. Put back on tested spin cycle everything is doing great

There's two nuts on the back of the washer holding the metal backplate. I used my 11-1 Klein screwdriver. Once you get the screws out lift the backplate slightly and pull the whole top assembly out of it's spot and lean it forward onto top of the washer.

Take pictures of where the wires go so you can remember for later.

Disconnect the two wires and remove the two screws holding the metal plate. Same size nuts driver as the other screws.

Remove the sensor by just wiggling it out.
Slide the intake assemby out of it's spot.
Slide the new one in.
Then just do everything you did in reverse.

Takes 10 minutes. Super easy.

Just follow the directions, it's easy. My biggest gripe is with Whirlpool. We moved into this house about a year ago; the dishwasher was new at that time. The house we moved from also had a similar Whirlpool dishwasher, less than a year old. Both had these roller assemblies break. The replacement parts are from Whirlpool, and of much better quality. I don't understand why they don't use the better parts when making the unit.

Easy fix. Take out the two screws on the backside of the control panel and remove control panel out of the way. You will need a long shaft nut driver or 1/4 inch socket extension to be able to get to the nuts, one on each side of the back of the control panel. The water inlet valve is right there in your face. Easy to remove and replace. Remember to save the small O-ring in the center of the top of the valve and reuse it. Oh, by-the-way, shut the water off first and unplug the washer. Replacement part was a perfect match.

Take cover off use socket driver to remove two hex head machine screws. There was a foam piece attached to the old part that i pealed off and attached to the new part. It’s there to prevent rattles. There is a tube that pulls out of the old part and a grommet inside that must be removed and placed in the new part. Connect the two electrical plugs and install the new part just like the old part came out.

looked up part not exactly easy. that was the hard part. it was delivered next day and just had to pop into place extremely easy instalation

I downloaded the repair manual on line and followed the instructions for running the diagnostics. This showed that the selector switches were faulty. I then replaced the selector switches following the instructions in the repair manual. Couldn't have been easier.

Lift the cover, undo too screws, Slide out broken part, slide in new part put in the screws and close the lid.A piece of cake.

Thank you for the super fast service on Christmas eve no less!