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I THINK I need a pump – it seems to be making a very unmusical noise and the programme is not moving on as it should! I’ve made sure the drain area etc. is clean. Where’s the cheapest place to get a replacement? Is there another make/model name that has the same pump?
Thanks for any help.
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Merloni make that machine for MFI Meatyboy and it does sound as if it’s failed.
In the shop here for you:
http://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/Washing+ … +Pump.html
Dave.
Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
Very many thanks for this – and for the very speedy reply! Just one thing before I spend my hard-earned — is there any way of telling FOR SURE if this really IS the problem?
Thanks again.
MB
Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
If the machine isn’t draining and there are no blockages anywhere there’s nothing else it can be really.
Dave.
Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
I’ve done yet another dummy run (wash). Despite all the noise (from what I can only assume is the pump – because the main motor is not always even trying to trying when the noise is still there), the water did drain -but maybe not completely?? Could it be that the pump is working to some extent, but not actually getting right to the bottom, as it were? I keep suspecting that maybe there’s still a small amount of water below the visible level of the inside of the drum. How “empty” does it need to be to “fool” the vacuum switch thingy (apologies for the technical jargon!)?
MBRe: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
hi
have you checked that there is not a blockage where the waste pipe goes into the waste system under your sink?.
take the hose off whatever connection you have under the sink and put the hose into a bucket,if it pumps the water out then its yourwaste blocked,if you feel a pressure build up while on the hose it may well be you have a blockage in the washing machine waste pipe normally caused by grease build up from your sink,try to tap or knock the washing machine waste pipe along its length it may have a sludge build up.
hope this helps
bryan
Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
Thanks for this suggestion, Bryan. Under the sink is fine and water seems to run through the crinkly hose OK, too. I’m still puzzled!
MBRe: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
If the pump is making a grating, drilling noise; the pump motor’s rotor is worn in the plastic housing and will become intermittent in its operation.
As it is a low value component I would replace it anyway – check in Shop@ for the part.
Regards,
Penguin45Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
These pumps are renowned for making a strange growling noise intermittently ,If you can see the pump and its a red body on a clear/white plastic base ,its the pump deffo,If its black they do go occasionaly but not common
LawrenceRe: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
An update. I got a new pump today – locally so as to save time.
I put it in, hoping for success. No more noises, BUT BY NO MEANS OUT OF THE WOODS!
I started a so-called “short” wash (with rinses and a spin), which normally would have taken less than an hour, but just over an hour and three-quarters later, I switched it off in despair, a little before the final spin SHOULD have started. It took in water, did the usual wash bit, but after pumping out, continued for ages to “fiddle about”, rotating one way or the other for ages and ages at a time, while apparently dry – yet the pump seemed to be working long after you’d have expected it to have stopped and whatever should have happened next to have kicked in! It’s hard to remember what was “normal” before, but I did notice that at no stage did the round “window” ever feel in the slightest bit warm – even when the so-called “wash” bit was going on – and even though I had the temperature set at 50 degrees. Does that tell anyone anything? S.O.S.! HELP!
Thanks again to everyone who has volunteered an opinion.
MB
Re: Pump needed for “Diplomat 8502” Washing Machin
If it wasn’t heating the water Meaty it wouldn’t have advanced pass the wash stage.
May be time for an engineer ?
Dave.
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