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Washing Machine Repair FAQ Fixitnow. Samurai Appliance Repair Man. Preventing Washer Floods. You put a load of dirty clothes in your washer, start it up and walk away. But something goes wrongvery wrongSudsing out of Your Washer Drain Stand Pipe. Dammit It happened again you ran a load of wash and came back to find detergent suds all over the floor. Whats going on here My Washer is Flooding Me Out Does your washer fillup with water even when its off Or, you cant get both hot and cold water even though the wall valve is on Read why, Grasshopper. Water Flows into My Washer but the Tub Never Fills Up Read this before you tear your washer apartplease My Washer Takes Forever to Fill Up. Learn how to womp up on those annoying slow fill problems. My Washer Leaves White Gookus All Over My Clothes Common causes for the infamous lint residue problem. How Bout Them Agitator DawgsIf you have a Whirlpool or Kenmore direct drive washer and the agitator just flops around without doing anything, heres whatcha need to do. How do I get the frikkin agitator out of my washer Thisll splain it to ya for GE, Whirlpool, Maytag, Frigidaire, White Westinghouse, and Amana washers. Removing the Cabinet from Your Whirlpool or Kenmore Direct Drive Washer. This question comes up so frequently that I made a page for it. Youll need to remove the shroud to do most repairs on this washer. Replacing the Drive Coupler in Your Whirlpool or Kenmore Direct Drive Washer. This is the most common repair procedure in this washer. If you hear the motor running but the washer wont agitate or spin, then you need to read this. Order Parts for Your Washer. Washing Machine Diagnostic Repair Guide. Problem. Possible Causes. EEK My washer is leakingYour fill hoses might need tightening at either end. Ive seen where poor draining in the standpipe causes the sudsy water to back up and overflow, making it look like a washer problem when, in fact, it was a plumbing problem. Older Maytag Dependable Care washers can have problems with the tub water injector tube leaking. A pump might be leaking. You gotta open it up and see. On WhirlpoolKenmore direct drive washers, the pump is down in front and youll need to remove the cabinet to check it out. On old style GEHotpoint washers, the pump is down in back and youll need to pull off that back panel to check it out. The pump on Maytag washers is down in front and youll need to pull the front panel off to check it out. The tub might be leaking. How can you tellRight, you gotta open er up and look at it. Crystal balls dont work too good. The new style GEs which suck out loud are bad for the infamous spin during agitate problem. This makes a mess because it sloshes water out of the tub all over the frikkin floor. The only cure is to replace the brake package but, man, you might as well go ahead and replace the whole transmission. Prevention is the best thing here avoid GE like the plague and buy only Maytag or Whirlpool laundry equipment. The fill valve has crud caught in it making it stick open. Replace the fill valve and install sediment filtration on household water supply. More details on this here. Very restricted water flow through the valve. This problem is unique to the older GEHotpoint washers. Low water flow will cause the water from the valves discharge hose to run back up the hose by capillary action and down to the floor. This is a tricky one to catch, Hoss. Takes real kidneys to spot this one. The washer doesnt spin or, if it does, its real sluggish. No spin at all the lid switch is fried. Whaddya do You test it with your meter. In the WhirlpoolKenmore washers, a common problem is that the lid plunger stops making contact with the lid switch. Use a pen to manually press the lid switch actuator with the lid up, duh. If the washer spinswell, you know the rest. Older belt drive WhirlpoolKenmores the spin solenoid is burned out or has cut wires. Ohm out that solenoid 2. Make sure the wires are intact by giving them a little tug. If this is OK, you may need to adjustreplace the basket drive. Newer direct drive WhirlpoolKenmores worn out direct drive coupler. The drive belt has had it. Look for excessive glazing on the sides of the belt or cracks in the power side of the belt. On Maytags, replace the belt set if they look glazed or shiny on the sides even though the belts may look OK otherwise. Belts on other brands will be more obviously bad. Timer is fried. On older timers, its sometimes possible to run an external jumper to replace the bad internal contacts. Usually, however, the entire timer must be replaced. The only way to confirm is to use your meter and wiring diagram. It fills OK, it just wont agitate. Drive belt could be worn outsee above. On the WhirlpoolKenmore dual action agitator, the agitator dog cam assembly or drive spindle could be worn out. If the agitator just wobbles around when you turn it by hand, you need to replace the dog cam set. The timer contacts for the agitate cycle could be fried. Time to blow the dust off that meter and read that wiring diagram. On belt driven WhirlpoolKenmores wig wag plungerlifter or transmission mode lever could be worn out. Youll need to look at the action of the agitate solenoid when the machine is in the agitation part of the cycle. If the plungerlifter slips off the transmission mode lever, replace either the plungerlifter or the mode lever, as appropriate. On Maytags only the lid switch could be fried. Other brands will still agitate with a bad lid switch. Pressure switch is fried. Youll need to ohm out the contacts on it. How you gonna know what youre looking for in the contacts if you dont use the wiring diagram, tooThe air tube connecting to the pressure switch is pinched or you pulled it off by accident when you where tearing the thing apart because you didnt have a clue about what you were doing. It doesnt agitate or spin. Again, broken or worn drive belts. Newer direct drive WhirlpoolKenmores worn out direct drive coupler. The drive belt has had it. Look for excessive glazing on the sides of the belt or cracks in the power side of the belt. On Maytags, replace the belt set if they look glazed or shiny on the sides even though the belts may look OK otherwise. Belts on other brands will be more obviously bad. On WhirlpoolKenmore direct drive machines worn direct drive coupler. Motor is fried. If you cant rig up a test cord and test it, thats as far as I go with you on this one, Hoss. No power at washer electrical outletduh Fool thing wont pump out and I got a tub full of stinky water in the washer. Im gonna die EEEKPumps fried. If its a belt driven pump, you can tell by feeling how stiff it is to turn. For electric pumps, hook up a test cord and run it. Pull drain hose and watch discharge stream. If stream fluctuates or is pathetic, replace the pump. Again, worn drive belt. In this case, washer wont spin either or will have a sluggish spin. The drain hose is clogged usually with panties or nylon stockings, ya hey. Pull drain hose and watch discharge stream. A good discharge stream will have the same diameter as the hose itself. If less than this, its time to play find the panties. It sounds like a helicopters taking off and the whole house shakes when the washer goes into spin. Try leveling the washer, genius. Check for play along the diagonal corners of the washer cabinet by applying downward pressure. If there is any play at all, the washer will shake during spin and the legs must be leveled. You have brilliantly located your heavy ass washer on a floor that would be condemned for structural weakness if a building inspector saw it. Try placing reinforcing pads or pieces of plywood on the floor under the washer. On Maytag top loaders worn damper pads. On WhirlpoolKenmore direct drive machines worn snubber pads. The clothes are still sopping wet at the end of the cycle and take forever to dry. Aint but one thing the washers not spinning although it still pumps out.