Today, I installed a used A606 Permanent Press timer on my Maytag A606.  It would fill, agitate, and spin in the wash cycle.  However, it did not introduce water during the spray rinse and it did not fill with water during the deep rinse. 

The non-PP wiring harness has a jump wire coming off the yellow motor wire.  The jump wire connects directly to the fill valve from the motor.  However, that jump wire is eliminated in the PP wiring diagram.  Instead, the fill valve wire is connected to a terminal on the timer.

So my question for you Maytag experts is this:  Is the PP timer bad or do I need to cut the jump wire and attached it to the timer with a spade connector in order to correct the issue?  I really don't want to cut the jump wire and then find that it's just a bad timer!  On the other hand, I wonder if it's not introducing water during the spray rinse and deep rinse if the valve should be receiving current from the timer.  

If I do cut the wire and it ends up being a timer issue rather than a wiring issue, I guess I could reattach it with a butt splice. 

The wire can't simply be unplugged.  It is crimped to the spade connector going to the motor.  It comes off the spade connector on the motor and then goes directly to the fill valve where it connects to the hot and cold sides of the valve. 

I left that connection as it was, thinking it might work.  It did for the fill on the wash.  However, I was wondering if the timer behaved differently for the rinse, with electrical current flowing differently.