GE washer that quit mid-cycle in Alamo
The call An Alamo homeowner had a GE top-load washer stopping partway through the wash. It wouldn’t drain, clothes came out soaked, and every so often it flashed a code. That’s a drain fault almost every time.
What we found On the $75 diagnostic we pulled the pump filter and it was packed: lint, a bobby pin, and half a sock. The drain pump motor was also fading. It ran, then quit once it warmed up, which is why the machine stalled at the drain step and threw the code. Door lock and control board checked out fine.
The fix Cleared the drain line and filter, then swapped the drain pump for an OEM GE part. Ran three cycles back to back to make sure it drained and spun every time without cutting out.
How it turned out Full cycles, clean drain, dry spin, no codes. On a washer this age the pump was worth doing. If the transmission or the main board had been shot too, we’d have told her to put that money toward a new machine. It wasn’t, so she kept the one she had.
Need a washer looked at? The $75 diagnostic gets credited toward the repair. Schedule a visit and tell us what it’s doing.
