Lately my Maytag doesn't always drain the water and spin during the extra spin; I have to manually move the knob to the RINSE cycle. It seems to work ok in normal cycle. Also the clothes seem to have lots of lint. We have had the washer 7 years and only started noticing this recently. The drain hose goes directly into a stand pipe and it seems clear and that seems to drain OK. I have cycled the machine with no load and it seems to work fine; all the water spins out properly in Extra Rinse.

Any ideas what to look for?

The model no is MAV7600. Does the top of the unit swing up without removing any screws?

I cleaned out the pump and drain hose (they were very clean) and put a belt dressing on the belt. Some cycles come out great and others have water standing in the tub at the end of the extra rinse. It seems to work OK in normal rinse. If I manually go back to spin they spin dry but I have lots of lint. It seems to spin fast enough with a 3 1/2 pound weight in the basket. Could it be a timer issue? I think I only get the lint when I do an extra rinse.

I'm still not convinced its mechanical. It seems to spin fine empty or with a weight; plus sometimes it comes out clean and dry all the way through. Also there is no noise associated with a bearing failing. When it fails, the tub is full of water at the end of the extra rinse cycle; as if there was no spin at all to drain the water. This seems like something in the logic didn't run the spin cycle; such as the timer even though the timer arrow shows it complete. Is there a simple way to test the bearing?

Thanks, thats sort of my feeling also since all the mechanical things seem normal when they are isolated. Just this moring I ran a full load all the way through with extra rinse no problem; everything spun dry. I might try cleaning all the electrical contacts on the timer connection first before replacing it, just in case.