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Remove the front panel, take the suction hose off the pump and remove the coins and bobby pins from the pump impeller. Good to go.
Hello, I had this problem a couple weeks ago and found a bra underwire stuck in the motor. After following your sage advice, everything has been working fine since then.
Yesterday, it stopped pumping the water out again. I ran another load and it worked. This morning, it wasn't pumping again, so I took it apart in search of yet another underwire. This time there was nothing. I did notice, however, that in trying to spin the blades by hand, there was a lot of "startup" resistance. I put it all back together and its working fine again.
My question is whether the on again / off again nature of this problem, coupled with the difficult in hand spinning the blade is a good indication that the water pump in the nine year old machine needs to be replaced. What do you think? I certainly don't enjoy wrestling the red metal flangy things and getting stinky water all over my laundryroom floor. Should I bite the bullet and replace the pump, or does it need some kind of WD40 lubrication treatment? I took the plastic cover off that sits just above the motor and the motor itself is pretty rusty looking.
Muchas Gracias and Feliz Cerveza!