The other night, I was sitting watching youtubes and noticed the washer kept running. I fiddled with it, then looked up what it could be. I figured it to be dog hair in the pump, gumming up the works. So I shut it off and decided to deal with it later. I grabbed the small load of clothes out of it, rinsed them in the sink, and chucked them in the dryer.
The next day, it was time to deal with it. So I did this to empty it:
I had a chunk of tubing, so I started a gravity siphon. How many millennials or women would think of that? I got most of the water out, and grunted the thing onto the lawn and tipped it over to get the pump out. Easy. Three 5/16″ screws.
The thing rattled, so I took it apart:
Yep. Busted. That’s baked. So I waddled back to the office and jumped on Appliance Parts Pros to order a new one. I learned long ago it’s not worth finding a brick-and-mortar store. $100, it’ll be here on Monday, after Christmas. Cool. I couldn’t deal with it until then anyhow.
Turns out it showed up on Saturday. I wasn’t home, but we swung by after lunch to put it in the house.
Monday, I got to it. It came with one of the hoses attached.
That’s all the tools you’d need to do this job. It took less than a minute to bolt it up:
I had to fiddle a bit to get the hoses right. But super easy to do.
Back in place, I did a short test:
I loaded the clothes that were in it and did a rapid wash to test, and look for leaks.
There were none, and it did it’s job.
It takes nothing to look on youtube to find how to do something, even though I could’ve done it without it. What I learned was tipping it on it’s side on the lawn would let the water drain and give easy access to the pump. Had I simply tipped it up in place, the water would’ve been over the pump, and once removed, I’d have to deal with a few leftover gallons of water blasting out.
Even with the water in the basket gone, there was more there, and it made the washer super heavy. It was really easier for me to use a hand truck.
Noting to it. Fixed before I needed it for probably less than a trip charge. Washers and dryers are pretty simple machines. A washer has a drain pump, a fill valve and/or pump, a motor, and a control board. This one has some system to actively balance the load on spin cycle. It’s rare it goes haywire and needs to have the load repositioned.
Or washers.
Inspected By Pat 