hello hello thanks for tuning in today we wanted to show you how to repair a washing
machine now this applies to many different models this one just happens to be a whirlpool
but you can check your owner's manual and usually there's a schematic drawing inside
inside of here and you would access that from the bottom and we'll show you once we flip this thing
over but basically what's happening is it's getting stuck on sensing mode and the washer
won't start it just says sensing and locked and nothing happens no water comes in nothing
with today's crazy um inflation rates we went out to the local hardware stores just to
start looking at some of the prices on things and it's unbelievable
we looked at some water heaters they're almost a thousand dollars now when a year year and a
half ago before this pandemic they were 500 600 about half the price washing machines are over a
thousand dollars now so it is more imperative that you fix these things yourself at home
become more self-sufficient and continue to keep these machines running as long as you can to save
some money like our mothers and fathers did back in the day and if you see some of that
old machinery still around still working good all this new junk we're an error of just throw
things away when they break but we can't do that anymore because it's hurting our pockets
so basically where i'm going to show you what happened so we're going to hit start
and there you go it's locked and the motor should try and spin up here in a second and then
nothing will happen i don't know if you heard that but it was a click
so basically it just clicks you might get the motor or the agitator in here to spin
for about a second or two and then it shuts off basically you are stuck in this mode
so and there it clicked again nothing's happening ah you heard it
so basically we're just gonna cancel this run
and we are gonna go ahead and show you how to get into the menu here and this
is on whirlpool i don't know if it works on any other one but you kind of just want
to reset the dial just go around a circle each way and stop back at normal so you're gonna go
left once right one two three left once right once all of your signals and buttons will light
up there so what we're looking for now is the done and that's going to bring us into our error codes
so if you see there we'll click it now everything lights back up and it's blinking
do one rotation either way and now you see sensing will just be left that is the error code that is
where our problem is in the sensing cycle so let me get a little motor and show you exactly
what it is all right and this is the specific part number for this whirlpool and for many others it
fits ge kenmore all them things but you see here it's a synchronous motor 120 volts and it's got
a little arm there this arm never really gives a problem it's the motor in here that gives a
problem and this goes up underneath the machine basically this sits in a lever and a reluctor
spins around and it picks up the signal in order to go ahead and start the agitation and start
the cycle and everything so this is what we need to replace and that's on the bottom of the
washing machine so we want to come back out of service mode just hold and push this button
and it's off you want to go ahead and shut the power off on this thing and disconnect all your
hoses and everything disconnect your power line make sure that the unit is fully drained doesn't
have any water in it and you want to go ahead and just flip the unit on its back don't worry
these are designed to lay down on their backs they will be fine so let's get that thing laid down
and see what we're looking at all right we have the unit flipped upside down now as you can see
it is on its back you can put a piece of cardboard down there or a piece of plastic it's not going to
hurt anything and these things are pretty simple down here you only have a few simple items here
you've got a belt drive here that spins the agitator so if you hear squealing whining or
anything like that the belt's in there this is the motor synchronizer right here and as you can see
it is a direct match and you can tell that one's old and crusty because the plastic is yellowed out
but that goes there then you have a run start capacitor here and your drain motor here those
are really the only things that go wrong in these washing machines and people don't realize that
and you got some suspension hangers here that can break and if your tub gets uneven or starts
rocking back and forth those are things you got to look at but the main thing is we want to get
this thing out here and it's very simple you're just going to unplug that one connector there
take out those two green screws one two and swap the new motor in so we're gonna swap it out now
alright as you can see we got the old motor out
you really can't tell anything wrong with it but the motor is seized up inside of here
and that's the manufacture date was for 2014.
so this part you know we're coming on almost 10 years old so it's a motor it's going to fail
there's the new one in so just make sure you secure these bolts don't go too tight i mean
snug them but you don't want to strip them make sure you plug back in this connector right here
and you can clean out any of the junk that's down here cobwebs or spiderwebs or whatever because you
very rarely tip this thing up to do all your maintenance and cleaning while you're in here
then you're going to want to go ahead and stand it back up hook up the hoses plug the power back in
and we have to go through a recalibration mode anytime you change a part on these things you
have to recalibrate it so we're gonna go ahead and get this thing back in position and show how
to recalibrate it okay now that we got the wash machine set back up all of the hoses hooked back
up and everything we're gonna wanna go ahead and enter calibration mode we're gonna go ahead and
need to put the machine back into um service mode here like i said just rotate the dial
to kind of erase anything that you may have did so you're going to go left right right
right left right and there you are now the key we're looking the light or the led we're
looking to light up here is the rinse cycle that will start the calibration so just keep rotating
and there we are we're on wrench go ahead and start it
it'll scan everything and the calibration will start
this may take up to an hour to do just go ahead and let it run through and we'll see what happens
all right if you hear everything is activating now
the tumbler in there is starting to spin now this machine has been outside for a couple years so
it's going to take a minute to knock the dust off of it but it is calibrating now
okay once the machine is done calibrating the lock light will light up by itself all the other lights
will turn off and the lock will disengage allowing you to get back into the tub and again i said this
has been outside for a while so excuse the dirt but we are going to go ahead and get a some old
scrap clothes in here and see if this thing starts up and if we can get um some crud out of there
all right we got some old scrap stuff thrown in there with some detergent and clorox to see
we're gonna use that to kind of clean up the inside of that and throw the stuff away so
wanted a deep water uh we'll do two rinses just to make sure we get everything out um
let's go with let's go with hot water and see what happens and we're gonna go with
extra heavy soil we're gonna go ahead and start it and hopefully this thing works
right now it's doing the sensing again making sure that it's picking up how heavy that load is
the lock and unlock should happen two to three times says the manufacturer so we'll come back
once this thing starts up again all right now you can hear the water filling in there
this was not happening before like i said it would just stay on sensing and lock no
water input or anything so once it starts agitating we'll come back and check it
okay as you can hear is washing the link for the part will be in description
we really hope this helps everybody especially in these tough times where
inflation is an all-time high this was less than 30 to fix this machine so you could either call
somebody out and they charge you a service fee of over 100 bucks or you can take 15
minutes yourself and spend 30 bucks and replace it and if you hear everything is running fine now
we really hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe