[alan1125]

I am experiencing sporadic final spins with Whirlpool model LSR4100HQ0, a direct-drive model. My initial gut thought was the timer (because that was an easy repair!) and $140.00 later, I was wrong. For the normal wash cycle, it fills, agitates, drains and spins (motor must be reversing and coupler OK?). For the rinse cycle, it fills, agitates, drains and then may or may not go into the final spin. When it drains (it always drains OK), the transmission is idle and the timer is advancing. As the timer advances, the motor stops, there is a pause, and when it does go into a spin, you hear a "klunk" and it spins fine. More often though, the motor stops, there is a pause, the motor starts again, but there is no "klunk" and no spin. After 2-3 attempts of resetting the timer to the final spin cycle, it will finally spin. I have bypassed the lid switch through several complete cycles and have ruled out the lid switch. Now I believe I am left with either the basket drive assembly or the gearcase. Can you offer any futher troubleshooting as to which one it may be?

[richappy]

Probably a bad tranny. Just pull off the pump and motor and turn the tranny coupler clockwise, should spin the basket, if hard to turn, you have something in the tub, or bad brake shoes. If the basket comes up to speed when it does spin, you just might have a intermitant neutral drain clutch in the tranny.