Hi Launderess
I am happy to get a pump for you and post it, as long as we can identify which pump you have. Are you able to tkae a digital photo or scan a photo into your computer and post it?
It seems to me from previous pics that the USA models are more similar to the Australian models than the UK models. The machines all started out the same but evolved differently, the UK kept developing theirs whereas the Australian versions stopped evolving in the early 1980s and continued till the 1990s with only trim changes. I have a couple of dead Hoover twin tubs with pumps I believe to be OK (I can check in the next few days) which you can have for nothing.
There are three types of pumps - the earliest were only used to the early sixties so I'll assume yours isn't one of those. They had two pumps - one for wash and one for spin.
The second type and third type are similar and use some shared components but have a very different top half. (bottom half whwn you have the machine upside down for service.) they both have the same impeller and base. the cover on the earlier type incorporates a pair of valves to select whether wash water or spin water is pumped. You turn a knob on the top which turns a wire which turns the shaft in the pump cover. inside the cover is a spring which when turned one way opens the spin port of the pump, turn the other way opens the wash port on the pump. Only one port is ever open at a time. these pumps are a little more complicated and less reliable.
The later version is simpler and more reliable. The pump cover incorporates two inlets, an outlet and a plastic extension which holds a rubber pinch valve assembly. Unlike the earlier pump, the spin hose is always open to the pump, only the wash hose is connected via a valve - the rubber pinch valve. When you turn the knob on the control panel, the wire inside turns a lever on the pinch valve, turned one way the flat rubber hose is pinched tight between two steel pins that look like two inch nails. (when they rust out you replace them with real two inch nails...) Turn the knob the other way and the pins snap apart, opening the rubber hose and letting wash water through to the pump. This later pump does not ever block the hose to the spinner, this means the spinner is less likely to get overloaded by a silly user trying to empty the wash tub when the spinner is still full of water. However it also means ths suction of the pump to the wash tub is weaker, so it tends to empty the wash tub slower.
Anyway ... hopefully from the above waffle you can identify which pump your machine has. I will look at my machines and see which pumps I have and if they are OK. The earlier two-valve types are rare here, but I have an inkling that one of my dead ones has that type. Lets see if we can match.
If you don't have access to a digital camera, can you take some "real" photos and scan them in? I'd really like to see the innards of your machine, especially the pump and the pump mounting bracket, and the castors.
These machines are VERY common here so as long as the models are compatible we can get you back on the road.
Impeller noise - is this a vibration of the impeller when the spinner is going and the wash tub is empty? This is pretty normal - caused by slight wear in impeler shaft and bearing, but doesn't need to be fixed. Hoover twinnies create a symphony of buzzes, creaks, rattles, whines, screams and other noises, different with every load.
chris.
