Maytag washer not rinsing on regular

[dalangdon]

So, I got the dryer (mostly) fixed and now the washer is misbehaving. On the regular cycle, it no longer rinses or drains, but it works fine on Permanent Press.

Any ideas?

On the other hand, its leaking issue seems to have disappeared......

 

[combo52]

Issues with draining rinsing on regular cycle

What exactly happens when you run a regular cycle do you come back to the machine with the timer at the end of the cycle? Does it stall at the rinse cycle? Is the machine full of water?

It sounds like on the face of it you have a timer problem, but I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion, Try starting a cycle with the machine full of water and turn it to the final drain cycle in the regular cycle and see if it will drain and spin. For example, make sure the speed control buttons are Pressed in completely for the setting you want to use, also be sure the water temperature buttons are pressed completely for the temperature you’re trying to use .

Let us know what you find, John

 

[dalangdon]

Thanks! I'm back in Seattle but will try this out the next time I'm over there (in a few weeks)

 

[dalangdon]

It worked!

I did just as you suggested, (made sure the buttons were pushed all the way in, and it worked great. Thanks!

I noticed that the water level buttons aren’t always even - for instance, when I push the “normal” button, the “medium” button doesn’t pop all the way out (and vice-versa). Is that normal?

 

[bajaespuma]

What a beautiful set

More pictures please. IMO early 1970's Maytags were their best generation.

 

Yes, the selector button assemblies sometimes get gunked up and need some gentle cleaning and some Teflon spray.

 

I laughed out loud the first time I opened up a Maytag control panel and discovered that those selector switches all had "General  Electric" clearly embossed on them. Possible sabotage???

 

[combo52]

Maytag pushbutton control switches

Hi Ken, yes many of them were made by General Electric. The switches were good quality, but Maytag engineering was very poor. The switches were designed that they had to be pushed completely in to operate properly other companies like whirlpool designed their temperature switches and such so you didn’t even have to have any switch pushed in and the machine would still fill an operate.

You may not get the temperature you wanted because you hadn’t fully pushed the button but the machine would complete the cycle, Maytag didn’t care because they didn’t pay for warranty calls. It was up to the independent dealer so we got screwed every time we had to run the service call on a Maytag, just to discover that the customer had put a basket of laundry on the top of the machine and had accidentally evened out the buttons and all of a sudden it wouldn’t fill or it went operate.

Maytag appliances were never engineered, as well as GE or whirlpool that’s for sure.

John