Thread Number: 64111
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Mid-90s Maytag Dryer rumbling noises |
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Post# 867065 , Reply# 2   2/13/2016 at 21:26 (2,993 days old) by hereitgoes (USA)   |   | |
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That was quick! I will get the model # tomorrow. Could that be the cause of the poor drying now? Or maybe it's the extreme cold and wind coming back through the vent. Thanks! :) |
Post# 867121 , Reply# 4   2/14/2016 at 07:34 (2,992 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 867133 , Reply# 5   2/14/2016 at 09:25 (2,992 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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I believe Frigidaire was the first company to use this lousy way to a attach a dryers blower wheel-fan to the dryers motor when they introduced the FD Skinny-Mini around 1969. FD then attached the blower in all their full sized 1-18 dryers this way as well through the 70s.
Maytag started this crappy practice of attaching a blower this way when they introduced their new style dryer in 1974 for commercial use and then for all their dryers when the HOH dryer was abandoned around 1976.
Maytag had so much trouble with this system that we were even contacted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission about 20 years ago because they were thinking about forcing MT to do a safety recall on their dryers because of the inherent danger of having a gas or 240 electric dryer running where the fan had separated from the motors shaft.
Every dryer maker that used this cheap way of attaching the blower wheel in their dryers had problems with it. No decent dryer ever took this cost shortcut, WP GE-HP, Speed Queen, pre 80s Norges, Even Westinghouse never took a short cut like this.
To MTs credit when they came out with their 27" wide dryers in the late 90s they improved the attachment by making the flat area on the motors shaft larger which helped keep the blower wheel from stripping loose so easily and they finely got it right in the last year of producing dryers by molding in a threaded metal insert into the BW like WP and nearly everyone else had done for over 50 years.
FN; a MT blower wheel is the perfect replacement for a FD 1-18 dryers blower which is NLA, FD did not have as much trouble with loose blowers as MT did due to their use of a better clamp to hold the BW in place, [ also FD 1-18 dryers did not last nearly as long as MT dryers for many other reasons ]
John L. |
Post# 867152 , Reply# 6   2/14/2016 at 12:42 (2,992 days old) by hereitgoes (USA)   |   | |
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Thanks for all the comments! The model # is LDE8604ACE I usually get parts from Repair Clinic - you said eBay? |
Post# 867184 , Reply# 7   2/14/2016 at 17:34 (2,992 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 867228 , Reply# 8   2/14/2016 at 23:41 (2,992 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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$7+change on ebay link below. On my mother's, I used a small worm gear hose clamp when I replaced it...10 years ago...no problems since. CLICK HERE TO GO TO askolover's LINK on eBay |
Post# 867243 , Reply# 9   2/15/2016 at 06:57 (2,991 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 871228 , Reply# 11   3/8/2016 at 08:09 (2,969 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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also replace the drum rollers and belt while you are at it. You'll have a like new dryer. If the igniter or burner solenoids fail, they are accessable through the trap door in the lower right corner of the front. |