My washing machine will only fill part way with water - help!?

Question

The Kenmore washer in my new house has never worked right - it is the same model as the one I had in my last place, so I am pretty familiar with it... but this one will only fill up partway with water. I estimate it is about 5-7 years old, in good shape, looks quite new.

We are in a rural area and have a well and pump. Water pressure is not the greatest - at first I figured that was the problem, but we recently installed a new pump, and the overall pressure is a lot better, but the machine still will only fill up about 1/4 of the way. I let it run for about 30 minutes today in hopes that it would fill but it didn't.

I have tried running very small loads and seeing if that will work, but the machine never fills and thus never advances to the next cycle. You can manually move the k**b and it will agitate and spin and move through the cycles til it gets to the rinse, at which point it hangs up again.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

it sounds like i had a very similar problem. my washer would constantly run water and never fill, so we got another washer from a friend and it did the same thing.

you know what it was?    the drain hose want high enough and it basically could only fill to the height of the hose and then would run out the drain.  since it never got high enough it would not go to the next cycle.  i raised the hose and now i have to working washing machines.



another thing it could be is its not closing the valve completely allowing it to change cycles.

hope that was a help

Answer 2

your timer is broke ..........they are easy to fix and the part is about 25/50 dollars

Answer 3

Sounds like the timer. Go to Lowes or a washer repair store and ask them. Timers are not that difficult to replace if you have any simple tools. I did it and I am mechanically challenged.

Answer 4

possably timer,but not shur,it can be one of the swithces

Answer 5

Enis is correct, it is not the timer. For more information on how things work, see -

http://appliancequickfix.com/CLOTHESWASH...