How To Replace The Two Speed Clutch On A G.E. Filter Flo

[Chetlaham]

That business of labeling a Delicate cycle at a shorter wash time on a one-speeder is highly misleading, unless intermittent agitation is involved. I had a friend (deceased, miss you Brenda!) who had a typical lower-end one-speed GE FF with Regular and PP cycles, three temps, three fill levels. She had been of the impression that the Delicate timer setting runs at a slower speed, was shocked when I explained it's just a label at the shorter wash time and runs at full speed through the entire cycle from that point to the end, no different than starting at a longer time.

Well, let me pitch you this question. How many have taken complaint to their BOL GE having a shortened PP cycle as the delicate cycle? How many noticed when their two or three speed clutch became one speed only as with most every two and three speed filter flo?

 

[combo52]

Intermittent high speed agitation on top load washers was a very bad idea that did not really give you a delicate wash cycle and yes, whirlpool did it as well. It did not make it a good system.

GE made a huge mistake, putting two speed clutches in washing machines to get a two speed wash, action or delicate cycle.

Somebody definitely should’ve been fired. It would’ve been so easy just to put a pump for the filter flow that moved more water in a small solenoid valve to slow the water flow down when it was running at full speed of the motor, much less complicated when you consider how many GE washers hit the trash pile because of that clutch failing.

When you ran a two speed filter flow washer at low speed the clutch was slipping constantly was like driving your car with a foot on the brakes. What do you expect to happen?

We used to have customers that use nothing but low speed on GE filter, flow washers there be a big pile of dust from the linings on top of the motor and the machine would stop working all together. Was never a good idea.

The other terrible thing on GE filter flow washers was at the inner wash tub crashed into the outer tub when the load would go out of balance, I don’t think any other machine was ever built that would immediately start destroying itself when it was one week old and taking the enamel off the outer tub, allowing it to rust through eventually in many cases Again, destroying the washer.

And people think they make throwaway junk today, lol

John L