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@dadoes, You were exactly right! I knew as some as I flipped it over and saw the belt and pulley eating through the guard. The pulley was very loose and the nut came off by hand. Now just have to clean everything up and get a list of parts sent off to Whirlpool. Thanks for the heads up...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll go ahead and look into that theory tomorrow and let you know. I'm not sure about the distance. We are an hour from KC. Whirlpool tried locating someone to send and wasn't successful so they gave me an email address to request parts to be sent free of charge...

This "commercial grade" washer is less than a year old, but we only started using it in the beginning of February '23. We decided to go with this washer for the "upgraded" materials to last longer. It hasn't even been used for more than 30 days before it started having this issue. Started...

Thanks John. I’ll try that. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

One Last Thing Replacing the inlet valve did the trick and everything is doing good now. There is a very slow drip around the nut and threads I have circled in the attached photo. Any advice on how to address?

Thank you John! Glad to hear about the 4171000 being compatible. The oem part was going to be a lot more expensive than that one. Thanks a ton for the help! Once it gets in I’ll check back here.

Title typo… Haha, yeah it was after midnight and I was at my wits end and missed the typo until it was too late…

Thanks for the advise! I’ll start looking for another inlet valve and look closer at the arm today. Anywhere other than ebay to find these?

Hello, I recently picked up this kds-16 for a couple hundred dollars because we have loved our kds-17 and thought this would look better in our new house. I didn’t mind paying what I did because I couldn’t believe how clean it was for its age. They said it was working when they took it out for...