Perhaps I should not even bother the forum about a ten year old machine but this issue has become frustrating. The washer recently began to intermittently finish a normal wash cycle with the clothes essentially soaking wet following the spin cycle. I suspected a drain clog preventing the drain pump from evacuating the tub water occasionally, so I addressed the laundry drain issue with drain cleaner and a snake auger. When the problem became more frequent I found a pocket full of change in the pre-drain pump filter chamber and ordered a replacement drain pump in the event that a nickel, dime or quarter had damaged the pump impeller. While I was disassembling the drain connections to the pump assembly I felt what I thought was a check valve mechanism within the approximate three and one half inch wash tub drain outlet. Since I had descended into the rabbit hole halfway I climbed all the way inside, disconnected that three inch + factory installed clamp to discover a two and one half inch plastic ball I may insert the picture I took merely to prove I am not writing fan fiction to entertain the crowd. With all the replacement parts and renewed clamps and retainers we are left with inadequate spin cycles. The drive belt is not frayed, loose or stretched, the spin cycle itself seems to generate sufficient force that water should be extracted normally, but such is not the case. In another forum on You Tube a young man suggested replacing the "wax motor" that plugs into the door latch mechanism... problem is the door latch mechanism on this model machine does not have a third connector to receive a replacement wax motor. I have opened every access panel, loosened every quarter inch bolt and T5 torx head screw attempting to find where the wax motor is hidden on this model washer. Right now I'm running successive cycles of the machine wash cycle attempting to counter any possible detergent build-up (we don't use anything except HE-rated detergent) and there have been no self diagnostic codes displayed. As Whirlpool replacement parts are concerned; their proprietary/arbitrary price-gouging (I won't even begin to rant about RO water filtration components) is enough to make me start the process all over again with brand new appliances and then hope I can beat them to my own date with the incinerator prior to their trip to the county recycle bin. Right now I just ran a small test load selecting the small load cycle, which did not perform a satisfactory spin cycle; I then ran another rinse and spin cycle (12 minute option w/o extra rinse) and the load came out ready for the dryer. If the machine performs the function completely some of the time how to go about isolating what component is intermittently lazy? With all the comments posted here and other places I'm not feeling like the Lone Ranger w/o Tonto any longer.