Direct Drive Washer Not Always Spinning

[stricklybojack]

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The machine was over loaded and broke the motor coupler. I replaced that and now the machine agitates as it should. It also spins, but sometimes it doesn’t unless you reset the timer to a different cycle.
On the regular cycle I can hear the timer go silent then start after a period when it nears the final spin.
I guess the timer is getting bad?

 

[DADoES]

 
I assume you understand how neutral drain works (pauses involved) so that's not what you mean about the timer going silent.

Does it fail to spin both after the wash and after the rinse?  Not necessarily failure in both periods when a failure occurs but sometimes in one or the other? Or it fails (when a failure occurs) only during the final spin period after the rinse?

Is the machine "dead" when you observe that it isn't spinning? The timer is stalled?  Or is the motor running and timer advancing but just no spin?

Does this same malfunction also occur in the Perm Press cycle? Or only during the "Ultra Clean" / Normal cycle?

 

[pierreandreply4]

do it work on other cycles fill agitate drain and spin?

 

[stricklybojack]

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Other cycles will spin, happens only in normal / ultra clean.
Machine dead silent when not spinning and timer is just past (as I recall when from testing it) 12 o’clock on the dial.
It’s a machine I replaced the wash basket on and sold 6 months ago. Now this issue has popped up.
The user said it was sometimes taking too long to go into spin before they overloaded it and broke the coupler, so the two are not related.
I am not familiar with top load machine behavior, perhaps the machine is functioning normally, but the user said it’s a condition that has developed since I sold it to them. Meaning it, “didn’t used to act like this”.

[this post was last edited: 1/23/2020-15:31]

 

[pierreandreply4]

i would check to see if the timer motor is not defective stricklybojack i know if i base myself on the old inglis whirlpool top load that i had as daily driver with my mom before replacement it had a mother replacement but in 1998 started to skip spin to first rinse had a tech check it and it was a defective timer motor replace the timer and fix the problem

 

[pierreandreply4]

i ment motor replacement sorry for double post since i can not edit my original post

 

[stricklybojack]

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Well it all got figured out...the key was when the user told me it would “sometimes start spinning if I slammed the lid down”.
Turns out the lid switch housing had cracked and failed and the switch was loose and not correctly positioned. New switch on the way for install. She has a grandchild in the mix and so didn’t want the clothes pin fix. I agreed.