From: "TURTLE" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Mystery Stains in Laundry
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:27:28 -0600


 wrote in message 
news:1111362798.265021.221030@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> We've been having these strange small mystery stains show up in our
> clothes. They're light-to-dark-brown and wash out fine with pretreating
> before the next wash. They show up in white loads, color loads,
> probably darks too, but (since they're dark) we we can't tell.
>
> It doesn't happen all the time and we have yet to discover a pattern as
> to when it DOES happen.  We bought the machine used and it seems to
> work fine so far except for these mystery stains.  We just started
> noticing it recently, but it's possible it's been happening since we
> got it, we're not sure; we may have simply not noticed.
>
> Thinking there was something in the machine itself causing it, I wiped
> around the inside of the bin -- over all the holes, at the bottom where
> the agitator connects, everywhere -- with a white cloth trying to pick
> up the stain.  No dice.
>
> I've read in other posts about iron and manganese in the water.  Could
> this be it and is there a simple test to see if that's causing it, and
> if not, what is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff

This is Turtle.

You could be having a transmission oil leak and it will or can get into the 
washing machine wash area. If your letting water into the transmission oil then 
the oil will rise up into the wash area. the oil will only rise up when there is 
water above it coming down into the transmission oil area.

Just a 2 cent shot at it.

TURTLE