1996 Maytag Washer Internal Operation
March 9th, 2010
High quality stereo version: www.youtube.com I took apart my washer that came with the house to clean it out internally and to check it out too. Obviously this was the first time I’ve seen the internals of a Maytag washer in operation…..
March 9th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Oh spats, by the way, nice quick Rockoons clip in the beginning there
I never noticed it until now but I could hear the fan motor for you heater turn on after you mentioned the bleach tube. haha
March 9th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
the motor is two directional. it spins one way for wash and the opposite way for drain/spin.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
how in the heck do you dislacate the motor to get the coupler changed inside the the motor itself……iam going nuts tring to figure this out….
March 9th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
thank you for posting this vid…showing the belts…..found out my belt had slipped off. easy fix
March 9th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Didn’t Maytag use two belts at one time? One for the helical drive and one for the pump. Or am I thinking of the
Speed Queen?
March 9th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I like how the water swirls around in the pump.
March 9th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
There are three felt snubber pads glued to the base, under the center support pedestal. They’ll wear down after years of use and need replacement, or metal-to-metal contact and the accompanying noise will occur when the tub oscillates. The belt on this style Maytag is the spin clutch, it has a fabric-type coating that is designed to slip during acceleration. Wrong belts will grab instead of slipping, putting a strain on the motor. There is a belt guard on the front panel.
March 9th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Neat! Such a simple arrangement to achieve all the functions. Wish I could get a machine like that in the UK. The ones we have here are all front loaders and built to fail.
March 9th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I think the pump impeller spins both directions. On agitate the direction of it’s rotation prevents water from entering the pump and keeps it in the tub.
March 9th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
sorry for the missspilling you can see into the pump is what i going to say
March 9th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
mmm the cycleletion/waste pump is plastic and
you you into it
March 9th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
that kind of scary all those belts and pulleys
exposed under thar with no gard to keep someones fingers from getting jammed in thim
March 9th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Wow, that machine looks mint. I always thought by the time that machine was made, all washers were direct-driven. Looking at the transmission reminds me of the Gravitron ride, Lol.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Lol, me and you both, “There’s nothing wrong with it, I just decided to take it apart and clean it”. I feel the need to do that too.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Wow that is some cool stuff! You dont want to be too close to that transmission when it goes to spin! :O
March 9th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
My Moms washing machine seizes up on the rinse cycle and you have to turn it to the spin cycle to get it going again.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
The lid switch has 2 switches actually. I have yet to figure out what the one does, as it is normally open when the lid is down, and opens when the lid is half way down.
The second is normally open when the lid is down, and closes right before the lid closes.
There is a schematic inside the console, but I didn’t get a chance to read it yet.
I was just going to jumper it out electrically, but I will do that another time.
March 9th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Wow, you can sure tell it has lived in a basement all its life, looks brand new behind the front panel! Mine is 7 years newer and doesn’t look that good…no basements in south-central Texas. Does yours have the 2-terminal lidswitch or the lidswitch with the block connector? I had no luck defeating the block-connector type on mine so I just resort to the yardstick if I want to watch, LOL.
The older Power-Fin agitator will work great in one of these, too.
March 9th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Hey Spats you think that is cool, wait till you see in how the Maytag Helical drive machine performs, the tranny is also stationary during agitate, but spins during spin, it’s wierd.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:06 am
That’s fascinating to see how the mechanism works, I have never actually seen an automatic machine inside in action. I guess the impeller on that pump just kind of idles in the forward direction and then when it reverses, begins to pump out?
Also when you have the green light on that rotating gearbox during the spin cycle you can see the Maytag “M” logo…but only when the green light is on! Maybe it’s acting like a stroboscope.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:12 am
haha, “There’s nothing wrong with it, I just decided to take it apart and clean it” lol, I do that too haha, when I buy a new electronic, the first thing I do is take it apart and check out the inside lol, clean it up, etc.
And is it possible for lost socks to end up wrapped around the dial, on the inside? Because my mom’s friend claims that’s what happened when her washer broke down and they opened it up to fix it.