Hi, my hobby is a waste of time building and repairing things, so I take the opportunity it gives me the technology to display my work, which may be more ugly or of lower quality than others, but they are mine. The crowd comes to family, my father and grandfather were carpenters but I did not follow the trade and became a mechanic, now overturning what I learned from them and our own experience at this relaxing pastime. I am not a technician, just a handyman who has repaired almost everything has fallen into my hands. Give advice, no definitive solutions or absolutes. To ease the page I have decided to delete comments from readers on the following criteria: – 1) comments that do not add anything to post. -2 º) to similar comments that it is anonymous and -3 °) to be decided by my free will and no offense. 1, the motor has burned out-soon we'll know by the smell coming from within and it skips the automatic solution = change the engine if the price they are often more profitable to change a washing machine. 2 º the water pump is faulty and does not finish empty so that the machine does not dare to spin, this is notice that when the machine has stopped we have the drum of water, the solution is to change the water pump- I explain in another article. 4 and more common than it may seem, the capacitor or condenser is bad (in induction motors, if the brushless motor is the fault is in them). We will know that this failed because the machine does all maytag repair help the complete cycle minus the spin, but if we put no clothes (ie no weight) if you want to spin. It can also happen attempt to turn the engine but does not move. This is noted by observing the motor pulley, seems to want to initiate the turn but does not move more than a few degrees. To make these checks must remove the washer its normal location, remove the manhole covers and connect it with great care not to get their hands on mechanisms other than we have moving parts and dangerous power. The condenser is usually white in color cylinder of a size that usually take in hand, on the model of machine is next to the water pump, or the top (see comments) and its mission is to "fool" the engine to boot like a three-phase and can initiate the turn and spin when spinning faster. To locate it have to remove the engine access doors or top, is often caught chassis plate with a nut so if we look at the washer and nut as one is there and take two cables. EYE is no electricity here so be very careful when handling, before you start to think not even have to unplug the power. To purchase the condenser (his real name trainer) we should look to microfarads (uF) it works, usually of 12.5, 14 or 16, it is best to remove the old and bringing it shows a parts store. If necessary we can put the following in power but is not recommended as the engine work harder, work is going to work but is not your thing and we can create other malfunctions. The cost of a mob of these walked the 7 euros in early 2009, much less than we charge just for asking a technician time (with all due respect to the technicians do their job and deserve the salary they earn But in the times in which we live is hardly any savings). Hi, I've been looking for information on how to repair the appliance yourself, and all I found, yours was the easiest to understand and sounds easy .. my washer centrifuged, talked to the technician for another reason and now I leave squeeze the ropa.He gone for the technical but not found again. And then did you decide to seek help on the Web. I hope that all indications that he may serve me to compose, it is something simple and you do see even more. Thank you for your help. Greetings from Mexicali, Mexico. Remember that things I post are things that have happened to me and there may be other reasons for failure, the truth that I learned a lot of sellers of spare parts that I've always driven well and sometimes better than the technicians. Hi, I agree that it is very explicit in their advice, my washer lava when it comes to spin as you click to divert the water and stay there. I think point 4 closest to my problem I do not appreciate what it is which is located at the top condensador.dice but I open the back screws? . I am a woman and is more complicated for me. if the machine is top loading, the most common is that the capacitor will screwed into the bottom of the machine, so you have to dump it to access it. if front-loading is usually at the top to reach the need to remove the top cover of the machine, usually takes a couple of screws on each side and maybe some behind, once these screws removed the lid slips a few inches forward and comes up. Hello .. I have a washing machine, just as you say in your case, before starting to spin it a click, release the brake and sometimes does not spin or spins but at a speed that leaves clothes wet just .. I guess Your explanation that the fault is in the famous capacitor?. Indeed if the machine finishes the spin cycle and has not, and has been emptied of water so we discard the pump breakdown, almost certainly to 90 100 which is the condenser (capacitor). my washer will not spin, to get to that process still. under the hose at ground level and remove the water and continues with the process, then change the pump for a new one, but now is the same, when the process of spin control alone, sometimes works sometimes not. has touched me so every time you get to spin down the hose and then upload. that may be. Thank you. If the fault was of the pump, the machine should finish the cleaning process without spin, ie would spin until it reaches the stop. It seems that you have not emptied the water and if you changed the pump and the problem remains the same should be the boss start to this