Thank you so much I have been searching for the this fix for weeks so happy I found it because of you video I was able to fix a washer I found on the side of the road that had a sign on it saying free now I have a washer
I fixed my washer!!!! I didn't have the meter. I just took it apart, sanded it down, put back together and ta-da! Kisses to the maker of this video. Love a free fix. :)
Great video, I had already replaced this switch once and was looking for a way to bypass or fix this. This is a really shitty design by GE. These should be replaced free. Someone should file a class action suite against GE because they know this part will fail and are making thousands of $ by selling the same bad switch design which will eventually fail again. I replace mine the first time and fixed the 2nd one but imagine those that have to call a repair man which will raise the totla cost of the repair.
Truly correct, a bad design be GE. There appears to be numerous variations of this GE switch, looking at all the various model numbers on Amazon, and the varrying prices range between 19 dollars to over 70 dollars. The replacement switch for the GE I worked on today costs 65.00 from Amazon. Not sure what the third wire on the switch is for? Great if it works, just cleaning the contacts. I should have tried contact cleaner spray. I didn't see the guy in this video test the third wire connection, and at the end, he seems to have missed testing the middle connection. IN any case, he may have solved the problem by cleaning the contacts.
The spring groove on the right side on my original part was poorly placed. It caused the spring to sit poorly and it eventually crimped. It was a pattern problem. There's 100's of thousands of them out there.
@@1for4ll Even on the GE top loader like yours here? I read somewhere on a thread it would ruin the machine. And you know what? The washer quit on me again twodays ago, about a month after a replacement part. It behaves just like it did before I put in the replacement. It seems, as before, that it sporadically wants to work. It always fills, but sometimes I need to re-set with the 6 open/ shut trick and do a "drain/spin" cycle. I'll try the lock clean again.
@@1for4ll Yeah. I tried but the spring was crimped from being pinched from the misaligned groove. I went through all my ball point pens and the best fit was just a little too small.🤣
My lid lock was just poorly designed by the engineers. Washer would not spin because one post connection point is a floating connection point and not a soldered connection point.. engineers did a lousy job on this GE locking mechanism. if you can imagine a floating post on inside of locket bouncing around during spin cycles wash cycles it's designed to fail. or last one year once it loosens up absolutely horrible design.
