Gear oil in GE top load washing machine?

Yes, the upper seal is leaking, likely because the bearing is worn out.

It requires a new transmission. Rebuilt ones are available but with labor, a new boot, belts, and other parts I agree you get closer to the cost of a new machine.

Sorry.

Probably just the micro-switch in the lid. They go out frequently. That's the switch that if you leave the lid open will stop the machine from spinning or agitating. A friend of mine once bought a very nice used machine because the user didn't know that all she had to do was close the lid, she had grown up using a front loader. I'm assuming you realize to close the lid. Sometimes the switch just doesn't make good connection because the gizmo that pushes it has worn or move. Set it on low water, let it fill, try really slamming the lid down a couple of time. If the machine works it is that problem. But usually it is a mirco-switch itself that has to be replaced...those things are always going out. I don't have any children in the house. I got so fed up with that switch going out, I bypassed mine. Haven't had a problem with that machine since.

It happen to me and the technician says that the trans seal is broke and its better buy a new one than try to repair.

the transmission seal is leaking. to have it fixed would probably cost about half the cost as a new machine.