Since it sometimes does it with small loads, I don't think being
overloaded is entire issue.

If it is something I can fix myself, fairly easily, I'd like to do
that. I live way out in woods and it is a chore to get anyone to come
out, even more of a chore to get the proper directions to the place to
them (turn right at the stump next to where the Gilroy's old barn used
to be).

Finally, the washer is jammed into a tight space which requires me to
remove a floor to ceiling cabinet full of canned fruits and vegetables
and haul the cabinet outside, whenever I need to replace a machine.

The last repair guy I had here to fix my old machine, some nine years
ago, insisted I remove the cabinet before he could work on it.

However, you can work on it with the cabinet in place, it is just a
REAL pain....and you have to be really skinny....