Hello dermot, find out where the machine is leaking from, if it is leaking from the back of the machine and you are sire it is not the hoses it could be the bearing on the way out, if you have had the machine for 9 years you have done well, if it was mine I personaly would not spend money on repairing it.
Ken
drivewithken@blueyonder.co.uk, June 2007