When you run the washing machine regular cycles - such as pernament press, heavy duty, at the end of the cycle, the last cycle being spin, the water has not drained from the tub. In rerunning the spin cycle by setting the dial to the spin cycle at the end of one of the regular cycles, the water then drains from the tub.

What is the problem and what further things, or tests, do I need to do to confirm what the exact problem is?

I am not a professional washing machine person but am pretty good at following instructions.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hi Gary

Can you give us some more information. Specifically, what happens at the end of the wash cycle? Does the machine drain, then spin, then go into the rinse cycle, at which time it does not drain and then spin? Or is there some other scenario?

If you can describe in detail how it is working we can make some suggestions, the most likely of which will be the timer.

Thanks

Well, as best I can recall, it goes into the rinse cycle and does not drain then into the spin cycle, and again does not drain. If I then just rerun the spin it spins and drains.

Thanks for all your help.

Gary

Hi Sid,

Ran the washing machine again using the heavy cycle. It loads the water and washes as normal. However, this time after the wash portion of the cycle, it did not drain the wash water, nor did it add any water for the rinse cycle. It ran through the rinse cycle without the water onto the spin cycle and it did not drain the water. It may have drained some of the water but I could not really tell. Moved the dial back to the rinse part of the cycle and started it again. This time it added water to rinse the clothes and moved on to the spin part of the cycle in which it spun and drained all the water. I believe I restarted from the rinse cycle portion of the regular wash part of the cycle. (There are three major type cycle for this machine: Permment Press, Regular Wash, Heavy Wash.)

The last time I ran it, when I sent you the first post, it actually added water for the rinse cycle and I think drained the water before the rinse cycle. It just did not take the water out on the spin portion of the program until I reran that portion.

Is this then a defective timer or other problems or a combination of problems?

Thanks for all your help

Gary

Thank you, Sid

I agree with you that it is the timer. Checked with a local appliance parts place (Overland Park, Kansas) and they said the part has to be ordered and is non returnable. Is that normal for that type of part?

If that is the case then we will probably go get a new washer.

Again, Sid, thanks for all your help and assistance.

Gary