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What a machine?!?
I was having a good day everything going right. Then I meet this beast. Not draining water. Take out filter cautiously, not a drop coming out. Must be a blocked sump. Cant get into it from underneath. Take back panel and lid off to find the insides of some ‘alien’ machine.
Anyway customers breathing down my neck so tried to look like I knew what I was doing. I manage to drain off machine through a breather pipe at the back of the drum. I then get sump hose off to feel for something in the sump. Ive found something I start poking and proding to soon realise its a valve which is actuated by a rod / motor set up. I manage, by luck, to find a piece of drum paddle lug caught in the flap. I just hope I don’t have to change the sump assy anytime soon.
Has anyone else encountered these machines?Re: Panasonic NA-147VB2
Done quite a few, 4 hour + for bearing job. What you’ve encountered is the “valve packing geared motor unit”. It is part of the anti-leak feature, but has been known to stick if anything fouls the plunger from opening or closing. You could ty-rap in in open all the time & disconnect the plastic arm from motor, then it will operate as a normal sump hose would.
Just in case you ever have to change a door seal its called a “wringer frame packing”.
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