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sooner pug  
#1 Posted : Friday, December 11, 2009 4:45:53 PM(UTC)
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I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We had a hard freeze a couple of nights ago. My
washer & dryer are in our garage. The next day my wife went to the garage
& fount water leaking or spraying from where the water hoses connect to the
water intake valve. The threaded hose connections on my water intake valve
are plastic. The hot and cold water hoses have metal threaded connections.
I shut off the water and unscrewed the hoses from the water intake valve. I figured the washers froze and got hard and that might have caused the spewing leak from both hot and cold water connections. I replaced rubber washers in both hoses and re-attached both to plastic connections on the water intake valve. still had the leak from both connections. I tried reversing the ends of the hoses and they still leaked. I tried another pair of hoses and
they still leaked. I had no burst pipes any where else or any freeze ups. I removed the water intake valve to make sure my intake screens were dirty. I
made sure nothing froze up in the intake valve. I figured the hard freeze must have done something to the plastic threads on the water intake valve. I am at my wits end. Any ideas? Thanks for any help.
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sidfink43  
#2 Posted : Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:21:12 PM(UTC)
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I know you said you had nothing froze in the intake valves, and the hoses are good, so I am guessing that you have hairline cracks in the plastic female connectors on the inlet valves. Water is trapped in the plastic connector parts of the inlet valve.

I suggest you replace the inlet valve assembly, and you should also open up the machine and run it with the front off to see that there are not other leaks. More strongly I suggest you store the washer where it does not freeze. Water remains in the washing machine in various places and a hard freeze may well destroy enough parts of your machine to render it economically unfixable. If you cannot move the machine you will need to have a heater on it during periods when it gets cold enough for water to freeze.

Washing machines are like my cats, they just don't like it outside when its cold.
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