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Is it leaking in all cycles? Or just when filling or spinning/draining?
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Only reason I asked that is because I googled it and saw that question asked.
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I haven't yet figured out at what point in the cycle it starts leaking.
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drum on that machine is made of two halves, reach under and check if the water is coming out further back, towards the middle of the housing. There is a small $20 seal that goes between the halves.
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You jinxed me. I heard the drip drip drip yesterday. I had already replaced the hot water valve on the left and now one of the cold water valves was leaking. The valve body gasket isn't the problem, the stem is corroded.
This washer is 10-12 years old and developed a motor noise last fall, so I'm not spending any more time and money on it since we will be replacing it.
But to get us going until then, I wire the cold water lines (See the wire nut) to the hot water valve and shut the cold water off. We just get hot water and that's fine for now.
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Those things have a lot of places that can go bad and start leaking. I've replaced the rubber gasket around the door once do to a tear and had it off several other times (between 2 machines) to know what a pita it is to get it set again. Check that spring around the gasket and make sure it's seating properly, like a snug tongue and grove. Then there's all the hoses etc. I once had the two halves of the drum apart too because something got wrapped around the axel. What a pita. I managed to put it all back together with no leaks. I'd guess that unless you had those 2 halves apart it's unlikely to be the source of the leak, but it very well could be.
Btw while you have access check that coin basket for debris. If your font loader doesn't have a short panel at the bottom front and you have to take off the entire front to get to the coin basket, then you can do what I did and cut a hole in the front so you can check that coin basket once in a while with greater ease.
Can you tell I hate these things? After our second front loader died (with too many electronic issues for me to resilve) I switched to a top loader with no agitator and am.very happy with it.
I doubt I'll buy another front loader.
Ray