Here’s my story. My Kenmore washer is just over 5 years old and wasn’t spinning clothes dry enough - my wife needed to wring clothes out to put in dryer. For quite a while she has had (at times) to start the spin by hand. Yesterday i opened it up to check out the coupling. Coupling seemed to be fine, couldn’t see any other problem so I put it back together.
Now it doesn’t move through any cycles (e.g. it will fill with water until I manually move it to next cycle), it has little-to-no spin power (when I manually put it on spin and use a screwdriver to bypass the lid switch) and doesn’t seem to be agitating at all. It does drain fine.
I am wondering if the timer is the issue with it not moving through cycles, but what’s up with the agitator? I pulled the top part of the agitator off, but didn’t know how to get the bottom part off and didn’t know what I’d be looking for. Can u help?
Just in case this is helpful to someone else, I checked my connections and found that I had crimped the water level tube when I reassembled the washer. When I fixed that, the washer went through its cycles correctly again. Now my only problem is the spin cycle not fully spinning clothes dry which is probably the clutch.
I checked the coupling and it looked ok. The washer is intermittently spinning fine now. Most times it is working ok and every now and then it doesn’t spin the clothes dry. I am still leaning toward a new clutch.