I have an Amana washing machine and the drum no longer spins. I had this problem a few months ago and I put a new belt on it and it started working again. The first time it happened the belt was spinning and burning. I think it even broke. I think we overloaded the washer and that caused it the first time. A couple of days ago it started to stop spinning again. This time I can see the belt is not spinning, it is actually turning both pullies, the one on the motor and the one on the drum but the drum doesn’t spin. I can see a little bit of water leaking out of the drum just above what I think is the transmission.
The drum seems pretty hard to turn by hand. I don’t think it was that hard to turn before. I am thinking it might have a bad bearing or something but I don’t know for sure. Limited on funds here so I really need to get this fixed as cheaply as possible. I’m a pretty handy guy and usually fix things by myself but I am kinda in uncharted waters here.
If anyone could help I would be forever grateful!!