Replacing valve on Hotpoint WD62

[pedderd]

I have had a water problem on mt washer dryer WD62.

Water was coming in during a dryer cycle, even with the machine turned off
Lucky me too.....the door seal was damaged from a caught tea towel, so i had a lovely flood to contend with. So turned off the machine, mopped up, went to bed. Next morning.....flooded again.
Meh.

Anyway, I have changed the seal and got a replacement valve (3 way cold inlet). VAL20 from a fleabay seller.

The valve looks very slightly different with one pair of the spade connectors turned round 90 degrees......AND my old valve has a red and a black insert in the edge of the outlet pipes on outlet 2 & 3 (counting downwards). The new valve has them on different outlets (red & yellow).

Now, the machine seems to be okay on wash.....but when I start a drying cycle, water spurts out of the top of black plastic vent on the top rear of the machine.

Do I need to change these inserts around ? Should the wiring be the same on the new part ?

Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.

 

[tockworth]

sounds like you have a couple of spades on the wrong connections. water should come through the trickle valve on drying it looks like the wash inlet valve is opening instead.

 

[pedderd]

Thanks Tockworth. I think you are right - update.

The new valve has a restrictor in the end of the valve tubes on numbers 1 & 2 (from top to bottom), the old valve had restrictors on 2 & 3.

I have cut out the red restrictor from tube 3 on the old valve and pushed it in tube 3 on the new valve and this has completely solved the squirting and the machine now dries fine.

However, the machine stops in mid cycle during say a quick wash.

Do you think that this down to the restrictor that is in tube 1 and shouldn't be ?

 

[tockworth]

That sounds logical although it very much sounds like this part was not a direct replacement for this particular model when the machine is in rinse mode it needs an unrestricted fill