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maytag wringer washer pump issue
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Post# 815582   3/24/2015 at 17:59 (3,320 days old) by ashley ()        

Does anyone know of someone who can look at my machine? I just bought it off an older gentlemen that had it sitting in his garage for so long he couldn't remember where he got it. The washing mechanism works great but for some reason when I turned the pump on the water doesn't come out the spout.




Post# 815584 , Reply# 1   3/24/2015 at 18:15 (3,320 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)        

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You will know it either a clog issue or pump issue by lowering the drain hose below the tub into a bucket. If water comes out fine by gravity, it is a pump issue, if nothing comes out or it just trickles, its a clog.

Post# 815837 , Reply# 2   3/26/2015 at 00:39 (3,319 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore)        

Have you tried taking the agitator out of the machine to see if the lint screen under it is all crudded up with lint residue clogging it up perhaps as well.


Post# 815937 , Reply# 3   3/26/2015 at 15:23 (3,318 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona )        
if it is the pump....

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You can try the boiling water method that I used, to free up the frozen drain pump on a maytag wringer washer that I gave to my aunt.
The hardest part was filling the washer with the boiling water & trying not to burn myself by touching the sides of the washer tub by leaning on it or getting too close to it & accidentally touching it (OUCH!!).


Post# 815983 , Reply# 4   3/26/2015 at 19:24 (3,318 days old) by e2l-arry (LAKEWOOD COLORADO)        
A simple adjustment

might be all that's needed. Check that when you activate the pump, the pump wheel is making contact with the lip on the pulley itself. That's what actually drives the pump.


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