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Thread Number: 78933
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Life Expectancy of Bearings on Speed Queen or the good older washers? |
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| Post# 1028961 4/4/2019 at 17:06 (2,072 days old) by PinkPower4 (USA) | ||
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What is the life expectancy of bearings on Speed Queen or the older "good" washers? It seems like the good newer one last only ten years and even less for the inexpensive made HE ones. Thanks! | ||
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Post# 1028975 , Reply# 2 4/4/2019 at 18:50 (2,072 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Bearing Life On Washing Machines Right On Brendan, Almost no washer ever built had bearing problems TILL water gets in them, So a better question might be which washers have the best water seals and overall life as a result.
Traditionally older top load washers with sleeve bearing [ at least for the top bearing closest to the water ] lasted longer.
This type of design would apply to MT DC, WP BD & DD, GE FF, WCI-Franklin. Machines with a ball bearing at the top usually had earlier failures, these included SQ TL perforated basket machines 1981 on , Norge perforated basket machines 1964 on, FD 1-18 washers however both FD and SQ solid tub washers did much better with top bearing life even with a ball bearing at the top and bottom.
John | ||
| Post# 1029008 , Reply# 4 4/5/2019 at 00:50 (2,072 days old) by FreshNclean (WA) | ||
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which modern FL washers have the best water seals ? Is there any that comes to mind ? | ||
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Post# 1029017 , Reply# 5 4/5/2019 at 06:43 (2,071 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Water Seals & Main Bearings On Newer FL Washers Unfortunately it often takes time to see which machines are holding up best, the ones we have seen the most problems with over the last 10-15 years are.
Early MT Neptune's till they redesigned the seal a few years in. [ their orignal design had a face type lip seal, when I was in service training for this machine I told them it would not last long ]
Small door Frigidaire machines 1996-2011, had more than their share of bearing failures and broken spiders.
We saw a lot of bearing failures in the Chinese built LittleSwan GE washers and again quite a few broken spiders.
Frigidaire seems to made an impressive comeback, I don't think we have seen a single seal-bearing-spider failure in their next two generations of FL washers, however they still have lots of board [ motor and control ] failures door lock problems, clogged impossible to get sumps and just overall mediocre performance.
Overall I would say the quality and durability of main seals have improved in newer FL Washers.
John | ||
| Post# 1029034 , Reply# 6 4/5/2019 at 10:14 (2,071 days old) by PinkPower4 (USA) | ||
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What about the SQ top load LWN432 model. It should be similar to bearings found in the AWN432 series sold for home use??? Thanks | ||
| Post# 1029156 , Reply# 8 4/6/2019 at 21:10 (2,070 days old) by stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK) | ||
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You can get a Speed Queen front loader now, just not the home version: www.appliancesconnection.... Or the old design TL machine: www.appliancesconnection.... | ||
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Post# 1029203 , Reply# 10 4/7/2019 at 11:23 (2,069 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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P added To Part # On SQ Parts | ||
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