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Stubborn Maytag 142 |
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Post# 125259   4/28/2006 at 23:36 (6,544 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Don S.(jetaction) is in Omaha this weekend to work on his Maytag 142 washer. He brought an A702 along to take the tub to use in this machine. We had no trouble getting the agitator, tub nut and tub out of the 702...but the 142 was a bit more difficult to tear down. We had to cut every single part out with a Dremel...take a look. Here is the panel of the 142, he has another panel from a 142 S that is in better shape and will have the suds-saver option. |
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Post# 125260 , Reply# 1   4/28/2006 at 23:38 (6,544 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125261 , Reply# 2   4/28/2006 at 23:40 (6,544 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125262 , Reply# 3   4/28/2006 at 23:43 (6,544 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Here is the tub mounting stem in pieces. The set-screw was so corroded and frozen, after breaking 3 allen wrenches, we grabbed the dremel and went at it. It took 5 cutting blades to get through all these parts, but it went so much faster and easier it was worth every one of them! BTW, did anyone notice the hole pattern of the basket on the previous pics? |
Post# 125263 , Reply# 4   4/28/2006 at 23:54 (6,544 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 125264 , Reply# 5   4/28/2006 at 23:59 (6,544 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 125278 , Reply# 7   4/29/2006 at 00:52 (6,544 days old) by spinout (Phoenix)   |   | |
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Love the use of those factory authorized service tools and procedures! Wanna borrow my plasma cutter? |
Post# 125298 , Reply# 8   4/29/2006 at 03:41 (6,544 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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I wonder if the pattern didn't arise because in (slightly) earlier models, the "missing holes" would have been "left" so bigger holes for the mounting bolts could have gone there. Missing holes? Left? Way too early for me. I think they just used the same punch or die which punched those holes in the older tubs and couldn't add any new punches to take out the space which had previously been left for the bigger mounting holes. Ok, that was even more confusing. Back to lurking - |
Post# 125361 , Reply# 9   4/29/2006 at 09:59 (6,543 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125429 , Reply# 11   4/29/2006 at 17:17 (6,543 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 125470 , Reply# 12   4/29/2006 at 20:06 (6,543 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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I once tried to get a tub out of a 1-18 that was frozen like that. After days I rigged a winch up on the ceiling and grabbed the spin shaft hoisted it up so the whole washer was suspended in air , then whacked the shaft until nothing happend then! So I unbolted the tub from the hub and cut the hub off with my trusty Dremel! Greg have you ever tried a Roto Zip?? Its like A dremel on steroids!! |
Post# 125488 , Reply# 13   4/29/2006 at 21:18 (6,543 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)   |   | |
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Post# 125507 , Reply# 14   4/29/2006 at 23:17 (6,543 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Keven, You were explaining missing holes at the top of the tub and I was talking about missing holes at the bottom. Gosh, that sounds worse than it really is, but it has nothing to do with Little Miss Sunbeam. |
Post# 125528 , Reply# 15   4/30/2006 at 04:06 (6,543 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Ok, Tom, now that is just plain silly. How empty and void is our life become when we needs must search for the lack of that which is not there? :-))) One thing Maytag (pre-Whirlpool) and Miele have in common is that both companies use(d) good designs forever. It is hard to believe, but so much of the design and actual parts on my 2000 Miele are identical to the 1979. What works, works. German companies only keep parts in stock for 20 years. After that you are screwed. This means you just need to know the name of a machine a bit later in the series than you have to get the part you need. Most parts outfitters will play along, except the Vorwerk people. |
Post# 125538 , Reply# 17   4/30/2006 at 06:26 (6,543 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Rex, You are right. Unfortunately, we have the same problem here in Germany - two generations later - that the US has. The companies are run by "junge, dynamische Manager" who have one philosphy: screw the shareholders, screw the customers. Make a short term profit and raise your salary; when the company goes belly-up pull the rip-cord on your golden parachute and that was that. For many years now, the big companies have been freed of their tax-debts here. They have been granted every exception and financial support they wanted as a response to the thinly-veiled threat this would save jobs, i.e., they would otherwise export their production to China. Well, the quality - Germany's only selling point against the competition - is falling, jobs are disappearing anyway and the companies could care less. I still have a few acquaintances in the white goods repair business - they have upped their inventories enormously, 'cause that is the only way to keep their customers or gain new ones when the manufacturer tells them a perfectly good product has to be thrown away because a fifty-cent part isn't deliverable. We never learn. |
Post# 125544 , Reply# 18   4/30/2006 at 08:03 (6,542 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 125549 , Reply# 20   4/30/2006 at 08:35 (6,542 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Greg and Gary: Been there, done that so many times. It is a blast taking those machines apart. I am always amazed at how different each and every Maytag restoration is, even though it could be an exact repeat. Thanks for the Dremel advise, I do have one, but always chose the hard way I guess. NOT ANY LONGER! Austin - you are truly an agitator with your agitators. Steve |
Post# 125550 , Reply# 21   4/30/2006 at 08:36 (6,542 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 125720 , Reply# 22   4/30/2006 at 23:47 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125721 , Reply# 23   4/30/2006 at 23:48 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125722 , Reply# 24   4/30/2006 at 23:49 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125723 , Reply# 25   4/30/2006 at 23:49 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125724 , Reply# 26   4/30/2006 at 23:50 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125726 , Reply# 27   4/30/2006 at 23:53 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125728 , Reply# 28   4/30/2006 at 23:55 (6,542 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 125729 , Reply# 29   12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,811 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 125730 , Reply# 30   12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,811 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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While we were disassembling the A702 for it's tubs and other parts, I kept thinking that it showed signs of oil in the washtub. Since this is rather rare for a Maytag, they usually drip oil from the bottom of the machine) I didn't want to believe it. My suspicions were correct when we found this hole in the agitator skirt. This hole would have breached the air-bubble usually formed under the agitator that protects the shaft and seals from getting wet. Water seeped into the transmission, forcing oil back into the washtub. It looks as though a nail or screw might have pierced the agitator (and scraped the tub - see earlier tub pic) which prevented the air bubble from forming each time it was used. We repaired the hole and a slight crack in this part with JB Weld, but eventually Don will need to find another Filter-Gyratator to replace it.
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Post# 125771 , Reply# 31   5/1/2006 at 07:07 (6,542 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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You need to quit! LMAO That machine looks beautiful. I know Don loves it. Ya'll must have had a great time this weekend. Thanks for sharing with us! |
Post# 125790 , Reply# 32   5/1/2006 at 08:31 (6,541 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 125791 , Reply# 33   5/1/2006 at 08:33 (6,541 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 125792 , Reply# 34   5/1/2006 at 08:35 (6,541 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 125793 , Reply# 35   5/1/2006 at 08:38 (6,541 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 125941 , Reply# 37   5/1/2006 at 20:53 (6,541 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Now that's what I'm talking about! One fantastic resto, done! Don, you have a beautiful machine there, you should be very proud of it. The hard work you two put into it seems to have really paid off big time. On the re-assembly, did you use brand new parts (tub seal, etc?) Hard to believe that washers were once beautiful. They don't get much better than this ;-) Ben |
Post# 125953 , Reply# 38   5/1/2006 at 21:41 (6,541 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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