It is most likley a noisy idler pulley bearing, if so don't waste your time oiling it, REPLACE the pulley and bracket and shaft, oiling something that has gotten noisy is seldom a long lasting repair, when something has gotten very noisy there is metal damage in the bearing area.

Squealing as mentioned in reply #3 is NOT the main bearings.

Current SQ TL washers are decent performing reliable machines, much more reliable in fact than MT DC TL washers from the 80s through the end in 2006. That said they are crude old school machines that are difficult to repair, the real deal from SQ is their Front Load washers, their FLWs should last twice as long as their TLWs and will save enough water, detergent and energy over their lifetime to completely pay for the washer easily.

Even though we have now sold over 500 SQ TLWs over the last ten years [ and probably have not run much more than 20-25 service calls on the ones we sold ] I would never have one in my personal laundry room. I would also never have a MT DC washer in my laundry room, they simply are not great performers in too may respects and of these too I would take the SQ TL over the MT DC because it at least agitates better, spins faster and does not constantly go out of balance and has self-leveling rear feet.

John L.

Are far more reliable than the last 30 years of MT DC TL washers and they perform far better in every major respect as well.

The early 80s SQ TL washers and the Amana and Amana tags had some serious issues, but Alliance has worked hard on working our any bugs.

As I mentioned before with over 500 SQ TL Washers sold by us over the last eight years or so there have been less than 25 service calls. Remember I used to work for MT in the 70s and we did a lot of warranty calls on those machines.

John L.