First off, congratulations on your new purchase! While I'm a die-hard front-loading washer advocate, the Speed Queen top-loader is one of the very few on the market that resembles a traditional washer. They appear to be built like a tank and have a great warranty.

Some questions:

1) Did you ever perform a test the like one you described above using your previous washer? There might have been some suds left in those clothes, too. The Speed Queen has a respectable spin speed for a traditional top-loader, so I would think it would be good at getting rid of detergent residue.

2) Do you have soft water? I have mechanically-softened water, so it's super-soft.  Even if the chemical compounds of the detergent are rinsed away, there is usually a bit of suds remaining in the final rinse.

3) Any particular reason you're using an HE detergent in a non-HE machine?  HE detergents are formulated to work in small amounts of water. Your Speed Queen uses much more water in a single fill than an HE machine.  I'd switch to a standard detergent.

4) A very tiny dose of liquid fabric softener is usually enough to get rid of any trace of suds in the rinse.  I have a very low water-use front-loader, and a scant 1/4 teaspoon of Downy diluted and added to the dispenser is enough to do the trick.

I'll let others with more experience in the area of rigging washers advise you on how to get a warm rinse.  Enjoy your new washer, and let us know what you think of it after you've used it for awhile.

Glad to hear that you took the plunge and got the Speed Queen.  They are fine machines.  I would suspect your water hardness isn't as extreme as you might think and a little less detergent might be in order.  What was your previous machine?  Didn't you say in another post that it was a Whirlpool sourced Maytag DD machine?

Malcolm

I wonder what would be involved in getting the machine to obey the wash temperature selection during the rinse portion of any cycle.  Hmmm....

Anybody have any insight?

Malcolm