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Thread Number: 82628
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
advice needed on belt drive restoration |
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Post# 1067354 , Reply# 1 4/14/2020 at 16:32 (1,073 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Replacing A WP BD Centerpost Tube
Hi Brandon, A guy in NY had a shop replace the center-post on his 1974 WP with a SS tube, I do not know where he got it or who did the work.
We bought a thin SS tube that just fit over the outside of the old CP and tack welded it at the top and bottom, this worked very well, we did four machines this way. A friend at an auto body shop got the SS tubing for us so I am not sure where he found it. I like the idea of sleveing the old CP better because it is critical that the CB be perfectly perpendicular so welding a new one would have be be carefully done and even though the CP is just pressed in the base-plate at the factory it must fit very tightly, I have even seen the factory CPs come loose. John L. | ||
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