I had a tech come to troubleshoot my washer and he said it needed a new motor because starter wasn’t dropping out causing the motor to overheat and stop on overload. I put the new motor in and it was still overheating so I replaced the timer and now it works OK. I’m thinking the motor was OK all along and was overheating because the timer was energizing the start coil continuously. Could that be so?
The motor has an internal switch that drops the connection by centrifugal force. If the problem was a bad centrifugal switch, replacing the motor would probably have solved your problem (even though there is always a possibility of a bad motor right out of the box). Your problem being solved by replacing the timer points to the likelihood of mis-diagnosis by the original service tech. Test the original motor to confirm this.