How to repair your GE washer

GE Washer makes clicking noises and won't agitate (sometimes) FREE $0 FIX or
GE Washing machine making a clicking noise.

GE has started making clicking noises during the agitation cycle. Then it stopped agitating at all, then started up again. It seems to have trouble agitating with a larger load. At first it was spinning OK, but now the clicking happens during the spin cycle, too.'

Some people with old house wiring will complain that the lights in the room dim as it clicks. This is due to the washer not being on its own breaker.

I see these problem request for help all across the net. The expert repairmen always tell them the same thing. change the $150 motor. I think most people are just throwing away the washers. When this happened to me I checked around and was told the same think I took mine apart and discovered that the motor has 2 windings when 1 winding burns out the starter relay starts clicking and causes this problem. See video.

Be sure that you watch the video to make sure yours is doing the same thing.

I have created a FREE fix that will allow you to keep using the washer but first the disclaimer.

Disclaimer.

1. This may be unsafe do at your own risk and unplug the washer first.
2. This will void your warranty! Don't blame me if you do.
3. This will make the factory, repairmen & parts houses mad because they won't sell any more motors. So they will likely tell you not to do this.
4. You may burn out your timer board if you don't do it right!
5. You may burn out your motor if you don't do it right.
6. Your belt may not last as long as it used to.
    

Because of all the above you are advised to do this fix only on a washer that you were going throw away anyway and not one you think you might want to replace the motor on.

Service men are warned not to do this fix on a customers unit without asking permission first.

Because of the different models involved you need to do some trouble shooing yourself to find out if this fix will work on your unit. Open up the top console and on the left back you will see a service manual.

Look for the service mode instructions in the manual see above. On mine you turn the timer to 9 oclock and then press the start button holding it down and rotate the knob 180 degrees. Once in service mode you need to test your SLOW and FAST wash modes as well as the SPIN mode. One speed should be working and the other should be clicking like you see in the above video. You need to note which is bad FAST or SLOW. Mine had the SLOW speed burned out.

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Once you do the test you can then decide which motor winding is burned out its most always the low speed.

The wiring diagram will tell you what terminal# the high and low speed windings go to on your timer board. On mine they were (blue and white) 2 & 3 but yours may not be the same so you have to check the diagram. The diagram counts from left to right but on the board its upside down so you count from right to left. If this is confusing then you had better not do this and stop now. Terminals 1,4,5&6 should not be touched.

Now the FIX that will cost you nothing. Locate the 2 wires going to your motor. Cut the one going to the bad winding for the speed that does not work and tape up the end going to the motor.

You will now have a wire coming from the board connected to nothing splice this into the wire going to the good speed on your motor. On mine the bad speed was the white wire and the blue wire was the good speed. So the speed wires from the board get twisted together and connected to the good winding. See photo.

Take care you connect the correct wires and that you dont change the nutrial wire which on my chart is terminal 1.

The end result is that you are tricking the timer into operating as a 1 speed washer.

You will get years more service for free and the on mine it actualy washes better on fast speed than it ever did on the slow speed. So far 6 years and no problems.



If this works for you plese let me know and also post your model no. so it can be added to this page so others can find this fix and save money also.

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Now we all know many will complain about this mostly because they did not think of it and I did. Others will claim they invented the fix but they didn't I have given all the tecs on the other forums plenty of time to come up with this fix and none of them thought of it.
Who am I to invent this FREE FIX when others could not?  I have worked on microwaves, tvs,stereos,cband,dish,directv, computers and cable tv headends since the 70s. I studied appliance repair but decided to go into electronics.

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