Thanks again to all of you, i will keep looking to see if anyone else posts anything on this thread. tub turns very smoothly (motor was frozed, not bearings) and no excessive play in inner tub so i assume spider is ok too! Still have not taken my old one apart yet so don't how spider is on it. I should get it running for about 80 bucks in bearings and seal and 50 i paid for the machine. Was going to get it running this month but now car issues are here and i have to work on it so this washer will have to wait awhile. I was thinking of painting spider after i clean it up. hopefully one broken bolt won't matter when i rebuild it. I did try to remove spider from tub but bolts are frozen and i broke off first one trying so i stopped. and i could have sworn when i had a westinghouse front loader and replaced bearings and seal in the 1990's that it's seal pressed up against the tub, not wrapping around the shaft like this one does.
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and i agree after looking at it the spider isn't cracked after all.Ĭombo, thanks especially for your info as always! didn't know that about the motors. The bronze seal area is fine on my shaft. Seals and bearings are sold as a unit on e bay.
The main reason i want to fix it is i like it's smaller capacity compared to the bigger front loaders! Almost every FL washer is made with these two parts touching and on MT Neptune's where they have thin nylon spacers they still suffer corroded and BROKEN spiders I have never seen any evidence of corrosion from the aluminum spider touching the SS tub. Cold water washing, too little and cheap detergent, no LCB used, and compounded by excessive use of fabric softener. I have yet to see a broken spider on a FL washer that was a surprise once you take apart the machine and see the abuse it suffered at the hands of the owner. That said the one Peter pictured is not severely corroded and if cleaned up properly and if the machine is used properly it will likely NEVER fail. They improved them on the next generation of FL washers and I have yet to see one break. Several different manufactures tried different painted coatings on the inside of pumps to help extent their life, but we still saw badly corroded parts occurring and of course the real solution was to make such parts out of various different plastics which makes them last forever.įrigidaire had far more broken spiders than most FL washers because they were so THIN on the small door machines. I am not sure that power coating would do all that much good based on what I saw when pot metal and aluminum parts were common on washers back in the mid to late 60s.
The only other option is to replace the entire rear shell or main tank assembly which can cost hundreds of dollars just for the parts.Yes Phil I do think that the visible lines are just mold lines. You should expect our seals to last as long as the factory seals but there are many other factors that impact the life of the seal such as the water, type of soap, loading weight, usage, etc. The seals we source are designed for this sort of an application. Visit the Front Load Washer Repair Chat Group Watch Repair Video for your washing machineīecause of the high number of people that have made this repair and those that want help with it, I recently began a chat group which you can join:
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Watch how easy the repair is with free videos. Washer manufacturers do not sell the replacement parts for this repair. Front load washing machines get noisy because the bearings and seal fail.
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