So one day, I came in here to change the laundry around, and I realized that the
washer was stuck halfway full. It had not drained properly on one of the cycles.
And there was also this strange sort of whirring sound
whenever I messed with any buttons or plug the machine in.
And there was also this weird sort of acrid electrical burn smell.
The first thing I always try in a situation like this
is the reset procedure for the appliance.
In this case, unplugging it for about 60 seconds,
plugging it back in, and then lifting the lid six times in succession to start the reset.
It might be a little bit different for your particular model, so you may have to look that up online.
But since that didn't fix anything in my case, my next thought was that maybe something
with the pump has gone wrong; either something is clogged, or the pump has actually gone bad.
The first thing I had to do though was get all of the laundry and the water out.
So I wrung out the laundry as best as I could with my hands, and threw it in the
dryer on a couple of cycles to get it dry.
Then I scooped out as much of the water as I could,
and then used a shop vac to suck out the rest of it
Next I had to disconnect the water lines, and make sure before you do that,
that you turn off both of those valves, otherwise you're gonna have a huge mess on your hands.
And getting those water lines off actually proved to be a little bit difficult.
(grunting) Oh man...
Ugh...gross.
Oh man.
Well, THAT's nasty.
Gross.
Wooo, uh oh!
Ruh Roh.
Okay, so apparently there was still some water in there....
Holy crap there's A LOT of water in there.
How the h*** do you get that thing off?
Ah, there we go!
You've just gotta take a little flathead something, and kind of shove this little piece in there,
so that it will slide in.
(that's what she said)
Ugh....okay...
Jeesh.
(sighing) Well that was a pain in the a**
Ah, there we go.
Power plug off.
All right, that was an effort....
But this is the drain pump.
There's nothing actually stuck in there, which is kind of what I was hoping for.
I was hoping there would just be a blockage in here, and I would be able to just clear it out.
Now, before I went and ordered a new pump,
we decided to check and see if this one is actually operational or not.
The first thing we did was use a multimeter to check it for continuity,
and you do this by setting the multimeter to ohms, and then using each of the probes to touch one
of the terminals, and if you get a tone,
that means that there is continuity,
which means there's power running through it.
(beeping) There is....continuity. Yes.
In order to see how well it was operating,
we took an old extension cord, and cut off the female end,
split the wires apart,
stripped them a little bit,
added some appropriately-sized electrical clips,
then plugged those into the pump, and plugged the whole thing into the wall,
to see how well it worked.
All right, let's see...
It does turn...
It spins pretty fast. I don't think that's it.
We also checked the drain line,
just to make sure there was no clogs in that, and there wasn't.
So I went ahead and put the original pump back on,
and that was not quite as hard as taking it off.
I actually found an easier way to do it,
by tipping the washing machine back a little bit up against a wall,
so that I could actually get a better angle on it.
Now if you want to see what I did next to try to fix this washer,
go ahead and click that little link right up there if you're on YouTube,
or click the link that's in the description,
and you can see my next video on how to change a lid locking mechanism.
Oh, sliced peaches!
(gasp)
(laughing) Doofus.
Uh, motherf****r
Aaaaa! Motherf****r!!!
You realize you did it on the wrong end?
You cut off the wrong side.
What the f**k?!
(laughing)
Well go get another one, it's fine.
We have like 5 million of them.