Wife said she heard the washing machine making a pretty good screech the other day. Like a high pitched scraping noise. My first guess is something in the belt pulley has gone loose and the pulley is scraping against something.
Ran it intentionally today with a couple of towels, and high water level.. just to listen and observe.
It filled, then nothing until it just drained. No agitation, no spin. No 'screeching' noise either.
Ran it again, this time, it filled, agitated, and just started to spin... then the basket coasted to a stop. But the motor was still running. I could just 'peek' under the lid enough to witness this. I could see the agitator wasn't spinning, but WAS 'wiggling'.
So I learned how to run the diagnostics, and retrieve error codes. Before I ran the diagnostics, I grabbed the error codes first;
First set of lights after clicking the knob to 'done' and hitting 'start';
Sensing (F code) plus wash, rinse, spin and done. Is this F15? it's confusing, because it flashes 2x's, then a gap... then flashes 2x's again. repeat. Edit; I think the 'gap' is the E code, with nothing to show. The next 3 codes seemed easier to figure out;
F-O E2 too much soap suds
F-5 E1 lid switch fault
F-7 E5 actuator/shifter
So, I 'cleared' the error codes, then ran the diagnostics. Exact same codes came up. I 'cleared' them again, and without running diagnostics, I pulled the codes again. Still there. I thought that holding the start/stop button for at least 3 seconds was supposed to clear it?? I unplugged it for over an hour too, still has the errors.
I'm hoping that a lid switch and an actuator will do the trick. I've read that the drive pulley was prone to getting loose too.. so will check that and the condition of the drive belt tomorrow.
Any other thoughts on why I can't clear the codes?
Ran it intentionally today with a couple of towels, and high water level.. just to listen and observe.
It filled, then nothing until it just drained. No agitation, no spin. No 'screeching' noise either.
Ran it again, this time, it filled, agitated, and just started to spin... then the basket coasted to a stop. But the motor was still running. I could just 'peek' under the lid enough to witness this. I could see the agitator wasn't spinning, but WAS 'wiggling'.
So I learned how to run the diagnostics, and retrieve error codes. Before I ran the diagnostics, I grabbed the error codes first;
First set of lights after clicking the knob to 'done' and hitting 'start';
Sensing (F code) plus wash, rinse, spin and done. Is this F15? it's confusing, because it flashes 2x's, then a gap... then flashes 2x's again. repeat. Edit; I think the 'gap' is the E code, with nothing to show. The next 3 codes seemed easier to figure out;
F-O E2 too much soap suds
F-5 E1 lid switch fault
F-7 E5 actuator/shifter
So, I 'cleared' the error codes, then ran the diagnostics. Exact same codes came up. I 'cleared' them again, and without running diagnostics, I pulled the codes again. Still there. I thought that holding the start/stop button for at least 3 seconds was supposed to clear it?? I unplugged it for over an hour too, still has the errors.
I'm hoping that a lid switch and an actuator will do the trick. I've read that the drive pulley was prone to getting loose too.. so will check that and the condition of the drive belt tomorrow.
Any other thoughts on why I can't clear the codes?
via Maytag Centennial washer
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