How to clean Bosch Washer water pump & get rid of stinky water.
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Stinky water in your washing machine? This video will show you how to clean the water pump and get rid of the smell. You may also find small items that went into the wash and may clog your pump.
Thanks, this video was awesome it really helped me out and saved me some money. This is what UA-cam used to be about. Cheers.
Still a good tutorial after 5 years. Ditto on using the shop vac for the water overflow out of the pump. Saved me a lot of extra time.
Very helpful, clear and well done. Thank you for taking time to put this together and publish it. I'm sure you've helped a lot of people.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together and share! That took care of the stink that I recently noticed whenever the washer was in spin cycle. I ended up placing duct tape around the entire access port opening to avoid slicing my hands and your wet vac tip suggestions were excellent and kept things from getting messy. After cleaning that cavity and cap, the stink is gone.
Gosh darn, THAT was simple to do. Thanks for the heads up on the wet vac; made all the difference in keeping things dry. Somehow a 3/32-inch square stainless washer jammed the pump.. God only knows where it came from. We be fixed and running fine. Thank you.
This video no doubt saved me a couple of hundred dollars in repair bills, so thank you very much for that. It also opened my eyes up to the necessity of doing regular maintenance on one's washing machine. There's no reason to not periodically clean out the pump area, instead of waiting for something to go wrong.
Thank you. My wife and found a 25 cent piece. Some pieces of rock grit and lo and behold a bra underwire. I thought that was a mechanism for the seal. Lol. Thanks again.
Thank you! I also cleaned inside the port/hole that feeds into the pump cavity and found a bunch of additional dirt and muck.
One thing that would be helpful to know here is that inserting a nail in the access panel hole and turning will not open the disk. Insert the nail all the way into the hole until you feel it stop, then press in about 5mm more before you try to turn. There is a plastic tab holding the disk in place that needs to be pushed back to unhook it and allow the disk to turn.
Yes. This. I see several people not being able to get past the first step. This is most helpful, and hopefully people will see it.
I was able to press my hand flat against the desk, turn it without effort and it came right off.
Pefect! I came across this video trying to figure out how to get the access door off, and the process worked perfectly. Thanks for posting, and remember, those edges are very sharp, people. Gloves would be recommended.
Thanks for making this video. I followed it step by step. My washer wouldn't pump out the water before and it works now perfectly. Saved me a bunch of money for a repair guy.
Worked like a charm! Mine was disgusting - there were two socks, $1.50+ in change, bobby-pins, safety pins, and other random junk in there. It smelled like a combination of Indian food & dirty diapers. All of the coins are permanently stained black. But... It looks like it worked! Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for putting this video together! Solved our issue immediately. Saved me time and money. Greatly appreciate it.
I did not have a nail to open the panel so I improvised with a wire coat hanger straightened out one end. I use them to unclog drains of hair. This was a very helpful video. Saved me from throwing the baby out with the bath water. Bosch is a damn good product. I do not like these front load washers, but it has lasted us for a good number of years.
To add to many of the comments of gratitude and thanks, I believe you're fix has done it for my first load at least we will see how subsequent ones go. There is a strange noise now coming from the pump area that I cleaned out. I found a gold chain and some other magnetic bits and lots of gunk which I scraped out with a small screwdriver, so hope I didn't damage anything but it was a plastic channel and I got nowhere near the pump impeller.
Hey! Thx so much for the walk through! We've had it for many years and this is the first time we've done it! And so far, it's removed all the water and it's not come back! Your instructions were perfect and the tip about the shop vac and going slow was spot on! My back doesn't think so, but my floor does! :P Thx again for taking the time to do this and sorry for your cut, also helped me decide to wear gloves! Your awesome!
Thanks for the video. Also, you are right about that sharp metal edge - I put electrical tape on mine, but only after I cut myself...
The alignment for the pipe cap is obvious because it is “keyed” with a notch. Also, don’t close up the access port before running the machine to make sure your seal is good, and not leaking! It took me four attempts to get the thing to seal well. I thought it was grit in the threads causing the leaking, but ultimately I got a good seal only after washing the silicone flange on the cap under hot water. There was muck stuck behind it. BTW, my machine was draining during the drain cycle - I could hear it - but not during the spin. The culprit was a small piece of plastic in the trap.
it totally worked! Thank you so much for helpful video. small underwear was clogged in there.
Brilliant! Saved a service call🤗🤗💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
Thank you for your clear demonstration - very helpful and much appreciated.
Wish I'd seen this earlier, before I made the mess on the floor with all the water within the pump, etc. Vacuum is a great idea. I found, heaven forbid, a quarter that had blocked the complete hole in the middle of the 'diverter/coin trap.' Along with spin problems in normal wash cycle when the 'spin' was selected it would pump for about 2 minutes then the display would change to 0.02. I thought it was indicating 2 minutes left and never gave a thought to it. I guess the coin prevented water removal in a timely manner which shut down the machine. This caused all kinds of problems with the normal cycles also. Too many to list. Other video's didn't really address the 'Nexxt' and how much a plugged discharge could cause.
Very helpful as this procedure is not in the manual.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video
Just cleaned a sock out of mine. Thanks!
Had trouble reinstalling the cap and damaged it from trying to untighten it with a pliers. The grit had worked its way onto the threads, I was going to try some petroleum jelly to prevent minor leaks. I ended up using a 3-1/2" repair plug by Test-Tite which I ground down around the edges so that it would fit around the flanges. did find a worn down nickel in the trap!
I can't get my plug off. I don't know if it's ever been cleaned. I was considering using pliers but...please let me know how you got yours off to begin with.
very helpful, tks saved me a lot of time!
Why won't the drain cap come off
Nice. I felt like i was on a mission with you.
Take painters tape and tape around the opening to avoid getting cut, put 2-3 layers on.
How about wearing gloves? 😅
Came for the DIY tutorial, stayed for the music.
This was very helpful thank you so much
Thank youuuuu
Great job 👏
Thank you! Solved my problem!
Thank you very much. This was very helpful
I have this exact machine. I tried to clean filter and the black part that unscrews separated from the white part of the filter so I can't get the filter out to clean. Any suggestions?
All these video's are great. My machine is a Bosch series 300 and the drain doesn't look like that. Can you do a video of the my machine
When I unscrewed the black cover the white filter stays in place. Any idea how to remove it?
Thank you so much! Very useful! =D
Thank u
Great video, thanks! How often do you need to clean it out?
Thank you!
Funny being a mechanic my hand just stopped bleeding! came here after
Very good machines...
As you look at the unscrewed trap plug housing; at 6:30 we see a slot in the housing that accepts the funny looking plug. Align this plug with that protruding flat edge and then push the plug in to start it touching the screw threads and then screw in the plug. So a little care in alignment will make it easy to start the screw threads of the plug. See my video about the 500plus model drain pump replacement when the washer will not cycle due to failure of the drain pump motor. When the drain pump fails; this will cause an error code and the washer will sit there and not let the water drain out of the tub. Make a plastic clear drain funnel by taking a same size hand soap bottle and cut it for the funnel with the screw cap end being your handle and an additional nickle sized hole cut in the upper shoulder where the sides of the bottle start to draw into the neck of the container. With this funnel you will not be required to use a wet vac to drain the water in the tub. VRolfe Chicago
Thanks so very much!!!
I did this and it got rid of the E04 Code but it's leaking???? Any suggestions?
Mindy Naylor I’m having the same problem what did you do?
Thank you so much for posting this! Can you please tell me the year/model#? We have this exact washer -do not have manual (we bought our town home and the previous owners didn't leave any owner's manuals. Also I'm having a heck of a time even twisting the cap off (not the cover)...any suggestions? Please and thank you!
Kiki Andriani q
Did you ever finally get the cap to unscrew? I can't. Please help!
Did you ever get the cap off? I can't unscrew mine either. Please help?
Thank you for these tips. Does this process fix the sour smell that I have begun to have despite always keeping the door open when not in use and running a water-and-chlorine-bleach only rinse every few months?
I just got an old Bosch, which has the same sour smell. The problem is the gasket got blocked at the bottom, causing the water to stay and mold generate. I asked a tech to help me. He just wiped out the dirt around the gasket, cleaned the filter at the right corner of the machine, and used a plier to reopen the small holes at the bottom of the gasket. He told me to run the machine several times. I am waiting for the results, but the smell does decrease a lot.
Wiping out the gasket with a rough cloth every so often will keep it fresh, and draining. Also, run a “quick wash” cycle with a little detergent, but no laundry, about once a month. Add some vinegar in the rinse cup.
thank you very much!
I had been eyeing up taking off the back cover and seeing what I could see....This was so simple. I found some old rusty staples from an old construction project, as well as plenty of gunk. Evening is back to normal now. No service call. No money spent. No problem. Thanks again! Cheers!
door won't open ,anyone have any ideas ?
I did the same but it’s leaking now no matter how tightly I close it any suggestions?
Fouzia Siddique did you figure it out?
Cant open the friggin thing
Why on God's green earth is this mentioned NOWHERE in the owner's manual??? Very helpful video otherwise. Still a slight cut, but would have been worse without your caution
Thank you very much for that video! I can send you some bitcoin for that help, it prevent me to pay someone ;-) The vacuum was a pretty nice idea until it started to send water everywhere in the room (I had a paper bag in place inside). I simply open the hole and let the water flow up to the room drain, remove all the trash (and a
washcloth) and do some cleanup, put back the and then put a ventilator in front of the hole at max all night, then close the while circle hole. It then works perfectly. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this video. Is there any other cleaning that should be done?
i cut my hand too
me too, even if I knew I could lol
2 years later and ME TOO lol
Get rid of the music. Neither I or no one else came here to listen to your music. I am sick of video's in which people come to watch something informational and somehow you think we care about your music. We don't.
I like the music wiseone!