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Post# 149986   8/22/2006 at 21:54 (6,427 days old) by sambootoo (Moody, AL)        

I have a Kitchen Aid washer that no longer does the neutral drain. After just a few seconds of draining, the washer jumps into spin. Repairclinic.com offers a neutral drain kit. Will this correct the problem, is it a headache of a job to repair, should I just let it go on as it is?? Any advice appreciated.




Post# 150047 , Reply# 1   8/23/2006 at 08:06 (6,427 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

It's not going to hurt anything to let it spin and drain. I make mine do it by lifting the lid briefly once it has gone into drain to make it go into spin. Some Whirlpool/Kenmore purists will tell you that your machine was not designed to do that and you should get it fixed or you will do some damage to it, but that's crap. It gives you a bit of additional spin time on high speed and any extra spinning removes a bit more water.

To fix it, there is a kit with a few parts that go into the transmisson. It's not a huge repair, but it is in the tranny.


Post# 150112 , Reply# 2   8/23/2006 at 13:44 (6,426 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR)        

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Mine did that occasionally, too. The only thing that concerned me is that it drained on high speed, and if I had selected a low spin speed (mine had a seperate speed selector control) then that meant it would spin at high speed for a couple of minutes before it stopped and started again in low speed. That really only mattered if I was washing things I didn't want to stretch or wrinkle, and may not be an issue for you.

Post# 150115 , Reply# 3   8/23/2006 at 14:04 (6,426 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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The original direct-drive design didn't have neutral drain. They ALWAYS did a spin-drain. On Delicate or Perm Press the spin-drain would be 2 mins at high speed, then it'd switch to low for the remainder of the spin time.

I'm thinking one reason the design was modified for neutral drain was to deal with the high spin - low spin delicates situation. Maybe there were some complaints from people who actually monitored what their washers did, LOL.


Post# 150155 , Reply# 4   8/23/2006 at 16:55 (6,426 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR)        

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I recall the first Whirlpool-made direct-drives having tub guards, like the Design 2000 and the 24" wide Kenmores. I guessed that was because they did a spin-drain. Why would they have bothered to change it? Was it less complicated to change the design to a neutral drain and keep it in high speed, versus doing a spin-drain in the selected spin speed (like Maytags or Filer-Flos)?


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