Do-It-Yourself Story

I replaced the timer. To do so, I unplugged the washer; then I had to remove two screws at back of the washer holding the controls panel. I also removed the timer push on cover, a plastic push pin and plastic dial from the top of the timer. After turning the controls panel over, I unplugged and removed a circuit board attached to the bottom of the old timer with snap in plastic studs. I then unplugged and removed one hex screw which was holding the old timer in. I raised a plastic clip on the left side of the timer and pushed/slid the old timer to toward the center of the panel to remove the old timer. Then, I just reversed the procedure to install the new timer. The plastic dial has alignment tabs that must be placed correctly when reinstalling on the timer shaft (followed by push pin and cover). Plugged back in and everything worked great. I took the bottom off of the old timer, which was hinged with just two clips, and found a dark pair of contacts which had obviously been heating and arcing, causing a bad connection periodically, confirming my suspicion that the timer was the cause of the intermittent problem with draining and spinning (not the lid switch in this case)