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Thread Number: 58977
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Maytag A208 |
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Post# 815341 3/23/2015 at 14:01 (3,320 days old) by GadgetGary  (Bristol,CT) |
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Was at a friend's house this weekend and he stated his Maytag washer was leaking badly. Upon further inspection, I found the leak to be coming right from the part below.
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Post# 815342 , Reply# 1 3/23/2015 at 14:01 (3,320 days old) by GadgetGary (Bristol,CT) |
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Post# 815363 , Reply# 2 3/23/2015 at 15:53 (3,320 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 815462 , Reply# 3 3/23/2015 at 22:42 (3,320 days old) by Volvoguy87 (Cincinnati, OH) |
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Post# 815511 , Reply# 5 3/24/2015 at 07:21 (3,319 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Repairing A Leaky MT Inlet Water Injector Yes the pictured kit will work, but be very careful if you use the new hose clamps not to over tighten them, the orignal clamps are a better type of center pull clamps and they usually can be reused. The only part of this assembly that ever fails is the little rubber insert, but if you have the other parts you can use them if you want, but as discussed in another thread NEW parts are sometimes not as well made as the orignal parts.
Dave's tip about putting soap on the end that gets inserted into the hose toward the front of he machines is an important one that allows proper assembly.
Yes you can bypass this whole assembly and the washer will work fine, but if you are on a public water system bypassing this air-gap is very against the law and if there was ever a problem caused by your bypassing it I would not want to be in your shoes.
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| Post# 815513 , Reply# 6 3/24/2015 at 07:48 (3,319 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
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Post# 815515 , Reply# 7 3/24/2015 at 07:54 (3,319 days old) by GadgetGary (Bristol,CT) |
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| Post# 815777 , Reply# 8 3/25/2015 at 18:17 (3,318 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
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Gary, it could be a split, or as I've seen on a couple MT's, calcium build up causing the flow out of the tube to change pattern and "splash" up out of the housing. You'd be surprised how quickly "a splash" adds up to rust and water on the floor. The revised housing addresses this, but all the parts are cheap enough that it's worth renewing them all. -C
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