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title: "Washer drain pump replacement"
description: "Maytag washer drain pump replacement: the commonest laundry repair on this make, and one of the cheapest parts behind one of the longer jobs."
url: "https://maytagmiami.support/services/washer-drain-pump-replacement/"
date_modified: "2026-09-07"
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# Maytag washer drain pump replacement

### The one appliance here that usually names its own problem

Eighty-six numbered pages on the top-load machine and sixty-two on the front-load make this the most documented appliance the maker builds, and a washer that has stopped with a full drum has almost certainly put something on the panel. Photograph it. After that the order is the same every time and it starts free: the filter at the bottom front on a front-loader, the hose behind, the standpipe height, and the sink beside it — which in an older laundry closet shares a waste and can defeat a perfectly good pump on its own.

What this involves

Photograph the panel first: this is the make's most documented appliance

Filter and hose before the pump — and the coin that got there first

The standpipe and the sink beside it are checked, because both can defeat the machine

Whatever the panel is showing

Eighty-six numbered pages on the top-load machine and sixty-two on the front-load mean the washer usually names the subsystem before anybody opens it.

The filter at the bottom front

With a towel and a shallow dish. What comes out of it is frequently the whole answer, and it is free.

The hose, the standpipe and the sink

Height, kinks and whether the machine shares a waste with something slow. A sink can defeat a perfectly good pump.

Then the pump itself

Measured and turned by hand. A pump moves water or it does not, and by now the path is known clear.

### What usually comes out of the filter?

Coins, hair grips, underwires, the corner of a tissue that dissolved and packed. There is also far more water in there than anybody expects, which is why a towel and a shallow dish come first.

### How long does this take?

Under an hour on most machines once the diagnosis is done, and the diagnosis is short when the panel has already named the subsystem. It is the water and the access that take the time, not the part.

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