The Virtual Repairman's Appliance Help

[Paul]

Hello,

My washer, after getting it back together from the agitator/leak problem started not ingaging the drum for the spin action, at first intermitantly and now consistantly. I have to pick up the lid and close it and then it always starts spinining...on the drain before the rinse and on the spin cycles.

Thank you,

Paul True

[Virtual Repairman]

This usually is the fault of the timer, as long as the lid switch closes properly. After the wash cycle finishes agitating, the timer pauses the motor, then reverses it. At first, the spin clutch is held steady by a neutral drain mechanism in the transmission. The timer is supposed to pause again in about a miunte, after the tub has mostly drained down, and the stop pawl in the neutral drain mechanism releases the cam for the unit to spin.

If the timer is skipping this 2nd pause, causing you to engage the pawl manually, then get a new timer.