I hope that everybody celebrated Memorial Day and had a good one. It’s important that we don’t say “Happy Memorial Day.” A lot of people gave their lives for our freedoms.
My particular freedom today was trying to troubleshoot and fix my Maytag washer. It’s one of the last American-made ones and it has run flawlessly for the last eighteen years in the same spot. But right before I left for the Swingout, I could hear a bearing squealing during the rinse cycle, and I smelled it burning, and I turned it off.
Today I put the washer in my backyard and hooked it up so I could try to troubleshoot it. It appears that the agitator is working okay. But when it goes to spin during the rinse cycle, it’s not actually spinning, and the bearing starts to whine and I can smell it burning.
I’ve done the troubleshooting online and this is kind of weird. Apparently the common thing on these is that the transmission gears for the agitator get frozen, but the agitator seems to be working. So then, what would cause the problem of the bearing squealing, and the agitator not turning during the spinning in the rinse cycle?
I know somewhere in my 39,000 followers here on Facebook, there must be a couple of lonely Maytag repairmen out there. The model is a Maytag Dependable Care, probably from the 1990s or early 2000s. Let me know if you can help!
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