[ellie5]

Re: Further to Fisher and Paykel 051 by ellie5 below

Oh no. Don’t know what I’ve done now but when I turn the machine on, all the lights stay lit. When I press start the top row of lights flash from side to side. There also seems to be a slight humming sounds coming from the electronics. I also discovered that the pump is leaking badly and thought I could just replace the pump but now this has happened.

[ellie5]

Re: Further to Fisher and Paykel 051 by ellie5 below

It’s OK I managed to twist the pump off. Didn’t look blocked from what I could see but some metal parts of the pump look a bit coroded. Would this affect the pump at all?

Thanks

[ellie5]

Re: Further to Fisher and Paykel 051 by ellie5 below

Had a look underneath the machine at pump as I want to see if it is blocked. How do I get the pump off to have a look? It seems to be fixed…but I am sure I had read other posts which mentioned it just twists off. Do i have to unscrew anything?

Thanks again

[ellie5]

Re: fisher and paykel smartdrive 051

In an attempt to get all of the water out of the machine from the drama above, I filled the machine again to rinse the clothes and of course I could not get the machine to spin out on the final spin. I eventually turned off the machine at power source and waited 10 min or so. I started machine, advanced to spin and you wouldn’t believe it but it spun out the clothes. This is all very strange.

I,m sure that if I attempted another load though, it would get stuck again.

Any ideas?

[ellie5]

Re: fisher and paykel smartdrive 051

I opened up the console and blew in the hose got the machine to finally spin out the water bit by bit until it was empty. When it was completely empty, I blew in the hose again and I got it to spin beautifully on the spin cycle.
I thought great, now I will just test the machine with a small load. It got to rinse, pumped out the water and then stopped. I left it on with the led still on rinse and suddenly after about a minute, it started to spin. I thought it had worked but it is still stuck with the rinse led on and the machine is full of suds. It keeps activating the pumping and then spins and sprays again but the machine stays full of suds. There is also some water leaking from underneath the machine. I forgot to mention this previously but i am not sure if it is water just leaking over the bowl or not.

Does this mean the sensor has gone?

[ellie5]

Re: fisher and paykel smartdrive 051

Thanks so much for your help. I will give it a try.

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