Thread Number: 14674
Help me diagnose my Kenmore washer spin cycle.. |
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Post# 249256 , Reply# 1   11/20/2007 at 12:13 (6,001 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Assuming it's a neutral-drain design, try to catch it in the act .. watch it for the entire load (or several if necessary) and notice if the motor pauses TWICE after each agitation period, when the timer turns from agitate to drain, and again between drain and spin. If it sometimes does not do both pauses, then the timer *may* be the problem. The pauses are required so the motor can reverse from agitate to drain, then to shift the tranny from neutral drain to spin. If both pauses *always* occur, then it's a tranny problem. My mother's KitchenAid toploader is doing the same thing, but not (yet) very often. She's not much for wanting to watch it to determine the problem. I ran it through one load and it worked OK .. so in her case I'm leaning toward the tranny acting up intermittently. |
Post# 249282 , Reply# 2   11/20/2007 at 14:42 (6,001 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass)   |   | |
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Sounds like the timer is bypassing the 2nd pause from drain to spin. That pause is necessary to engage the transmission into spin. A new timer should solve the problem. |
Post# 250651 , Reply# 5   11/27/2007 at 17:49 (5,994 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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