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Hi Clothes are still soaking wet after a cycle. It requires an extra spin cycle to have the clothes ready for the dryer. Mod# 24872300 Thanks Update (12/06/2022) Camera on phone broken. Tag reads MOD 110.24872300 SER CR1537479 TYPE 111 I noticed water rises to top of drain tube and sets there for awhile, so wonder if there is a clog. I’m gonna try snaking it out. Update (12/06/2022) Snaked for about 160" and encountered no clogs. Wondering about drain pipe height….manual says 39" FROM FLOOR. Mine is 43" from floor but only 30" to the trap that then does a 90 parallel to floor. Does that matter? Should I extend drain pipe 10"?
This sounds like a failed/failing clutch. As the clutch fails on these direct drive machines, it slips, and the spin speed starts to get lower and lower. Finally it won’t spin at all because it cant release the brake (the clutch band does this when it slips it can’t). Right now it sounds like you are still getting spin out of it, but it is slipping so much that it doesn’t get up to full speed, especially with a full load of wet clothes. Since a second spin cycle does get the clothes more dry, what is likely going on is that the initial spin gets them part way, you run the spin again and now that the basket is lighter with some moisture removed, the slip on the clutch is reduced and the basket finally gets up to an acceptable spin speed. Since it still apparently spins, I don’t believe it is the motor coupling or spiders. Having owned one of these machines and having done assisted spins (to help it up to speed so the clutch wouldn’t slip) I know this frustration.
