Bought this about a year and a half ago to replace my 12 year old Kenmore.
I've never been able to find the sweet spot for this thing when leveling, no matter what, at the start of the spin cycle when it's still at relatively low RPM and just starting to build up speed, it'll do a dozen or so rotations that will cause the machine to lurch a few inches to the left. Then once the speed starts building up it's pretty smooth, even at full speed you have to look closely to see it moving, it's that smooth.
There's also a thumping (not quite a banging) noise during these rotations that make it lurch like it does.
I googled this and some suggested leaving the back a bit lower, but that didn't work. Today I pulled it out again and this time set the adjusting screws as close to the body (lowering the washer) as I could, as they were about 1.5" high before and the initial shaking seemed to be getting worse. I got them all so there's only a couple of threads showing between them and the locking plastic wheel, and when I pushed the machine back in its place there is zero rocking and reads pretty well perfectly level side to side, back to front and corner to corner. Still, when it's building speed for that spin cycle it does the same lurching when it hits that certain speed, then smooths out. Even with it level the front of the machine moves a good 1-2 inches to the left before it smooths out. As before, once speed is built up its fine.
For now I put a foam block between it and the wall on the left side, that stops the machine from moving over, but I shouldn't have to be doing that IMO.
I was wondering about the shocks or dampers inside, but it's very smooth once it's hit a certain RPM, and it's also done this since day 1.
I'll try and post a video of it tomorrow, I'm hoping maybe someone has some ideas that'll help eliminate this.
thanks in advance.
I've never been able to find the sweet spot for this thing when leveling, no matter what, at the start of the spin cycle when it's still at relatively low RPM and just starting to build up speed, it'll do a dozen or so rotations that will cause the machine to lurch a few inches to the left. Then once the speed starts building up it's pretty smooth, even at full speed you have to look closely to see it moving, it's that smooth.
There's also a thumping (not quite a banging) noise during these rotations that make it lurch like it does.
I googled this and some suggested leaving the back a bit lower, but that didn't work. Today I pulled it out again and this time set the adjusting screws as close to the body (lowering the washer) as I could, as they were about 1.5" high before and the initial shaking seemed to be getting worse. I got them all so there's only a couple of threads showing between them and the locking plastic wheel, and when I pushed the machine back in its place there is zero rocking and reads pretty well perfectly level side to side, back to front and corner to corner. Still, when it's building speed for that spin cycle it does the same lurching when it hits that certain speed, then smooths out. Even with it level the front of the machine moves a good 1-2 inches to the left before it smooths out. As before, once speed is built up its fine.
For now I put a foam block between it and the wall on the left side, that stops the machine from moving over, but I shouldn't have to be doing that IMO.
I was wondering about the shocks or dampers inside, but it's very smooth once it's hit a certain RPM, and it's also done this since day 1.
I'll try and post a video of it tomorrow, I'm hoping maybe someone has some ideas that'll help eliminate this.
thanks in advance.
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