Maytag Performa PAV3855AAW does not spin, noisy wash
The machine sometimes makes a horable grating noise during wash. Then often does not spin.
Turning pully by hand produces wash cycle whichever direction the pully is turned.
Tub cannot be turned, seems locked. (Did not try to manually turn the tub while turning the pully, will do.) Have pulled out rotor and inner tub, nothing jammed there.
No oil, or water leaks. Belt and plastic main pully under tub look good. Drains OK, so I assume motor turns in correct different directions (seems to when looking at it).
The pully underneath does not look like it is meant to move up or down vertically, and it does not. There is a plastic cap under the pulley, popping it off reveals a circlip, have not removed it.
Whole machine is about 2 years old, although bought through a liquidator, dubious warantee. We are in Australia, the machine is 240v.
Is there hope? Or am I up for a gear box more expensive than the machine?
PS. Having been unable to get it to spin at all with the covers off, put it back together. Wife put a load on. No grating sound, spins more or less. But seems confused during spin. Is half working the washing agitator at the same time. Stops from time to time. Does not seem happy at all.
PPS. Don’t by American made washing machines in Australia. There is a big difference between the US and Australia that I had not consisdered. Americans use a dryer, always, even in sunny California where we once lived. Australians use a solar powered clothes line. So the washing machine needs a good lint filter, which the Maytag lacks.
if the agitator is rotating back and forth like it is washing while the in the spin cycle then you have a bad transmission
