On Dec 2, 7:14*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:36:02 -0800 (PST), Ulysses



How old is your Kenmore? If it's 10 years old it will oullive 2 or 3
new ones - and if it's 15, it might STILL outlive 4 new ones.- Hide quoted text -

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Let me try this again (third try). I hope I have not triple-posted!

Howdy. I'm seeing a lot of familiar faces (nicks, anyway) here. Too
bad my ISP does not carry this NG and I have to resort to Google.

My Kenmore is probably about 10-12 years old. It has a steel (?)
housing for the gearbox. I took apart the gearbox when first trying
to determine what the problem was and it does have some plastic gears
but nothing looked worn or damaged. From what you are saying it would
be worth putting a new motor in it every 10 years, if needed, and
forget the new ones. I have some doubts about the switches and timer
lasting that long though. I originally bought this machine used for
something like $100 when my Whirlpool belt-drive washer wore out.
This washer was outside in the rain and snow for years while I was
trying to get a house built. Amazing that it still works. It was
covered when not in use. We used to fill it directly from the well
and then power it from a generator which may not have been good for
the motor. I never tried to repair the Whirlpool as it had been
subjected to my wife for over 10 years. This is my first washer
repair attempt and maybe I'll get better at analyzing these things but
so far it makes fixing a fuel-injected computerized car engine seem
easy.

When trying to determine if the motor was bad I also had to consider
the start switch on the motor, wiring in general, mechanical factors,
control switches, and the timer. Plus there is a small circuit board
next to the second rinse switch and I have no idea what it is for. I
was thinking it might be a motor speed controller that chopped the
waveforms like a dimmer switch since I had no slow speed on my motor.
Anyway, I'm learning. Slowly. I should probably get a generic washer
repair manual. Does Hayne's make one? I got a lot out of their small
engine repair manual.