Strange Washing machine Issue - Bad board?

[Humbucker427]

I have a Maytag MAVT546EWW top loader washer that will not go into "Neutral Drain" mode.  Everything works fine until it's time to spin.  It just pauses for a couple minutes and will not pump the water out of the tub.  After agitation, I can hear a constant faint ticking sound coming from the timer, but no water is being drained.  After a couple minutes, it starts to spin up and will only drain via centrifugal force, but this has to be hard on the motor and components.  

Background:  A few days ago the washer broke and would not spin or agitate. I replaced the thrust bearing with a kit and it worked fine, or so I thought.  We washed a few loads, no problem.  Then, my wife was washing a load of towels and a lot water came out onto the floor.  We weren't watching it, so we don't know when, but I suspect it happened when it was in the spin cycle because the water wasn't drained beforehand. My suspicion is the original problem was a malfunctioning timer or board that causes the drain cycle to not work.  This extra strain on the thrust bearing broke it and now that I replaced it it could happened again any time we wash a large load (we've been keeping them very small the last two days).

Any ideas or opinions?

Thanks! 

[sh2sh2]

This washer does not have a neautral drain, it spins and drains at the same time

[Hiroshi]

The timer nor transmission have anything to do with the operation of the drain pump n this model, I would spin the pump pulley by hand and see if there is any binding, but this machine should begin draining right when the motor rotates in the spin direction...

[Humbucker427]

Thank you both so much!  I googled this model so many times over the weekend and could find nothing to indicate if it had a neutral drain or not.

I will certainly check the pump.  Strange that this just started happening immediately after I changed the broken thrust bearing.  I did check everything as the directions indicated and made sure the right spacer washer was installed. 

I'll take the pulley off and see how it feels when I rotate the pump and check back in here.  

 

Thanks again!

[Humbucker427]

Aaaand by pulley, I mean "belt".  Ooops!