I've been working on this washer for several months - one thing after another, but since I'm doing it myself, I don't mind at all.

What started this was the lid switch fell apart. While I was replacing that I replaced the worn dogs. More recently the washer has stopped spinning by itself. It gets to the spin part of the cycle and sounds like its spinning but it isn't. If we push the button in to stop it and pull the button back out, it immediately starts spinning normally. At the next part of the cycle when it is supposed to spin, it might spin or might not. The timer seemed to be making a loud noise when this cycle hit, so I replaced the timer without doing any further research. That fixed the noise but did not fix the spinning.

Now I'm doing the research I should have done. I have read through some similar topics on this forum and watched a few linked videos. It would seem from the discussions the clutch is likely to be the issue. In my experience with clutches on other systems, they either work or not, but not intermittently. Is it possible that a weak clutch could be activated by switching the power on and off? This could be related to the size of the load, but that thought just occurred to me. We do a lot of very small loads, so it could be the clutch has been just strong enough to make a small load spin. Is that possible?