Where's the dryer?  I hit the link and saw one picture with the washer on its side in the back of a car.  The rest of the pix were unrelated to the topic.

Got it, thanks!

Friends recently moved into a new home that has a similar model washer.  The female half of the couple insisted the washer tub was too small (there are only just the two of them in the household).  The male half maintained that it was a good machine and worth keeping.  I told him I agreed, and that she'd appreciate the fast cycles compared to the funky front-loader they left behind.

We got by for years with a mid '70s Maytag pair that included a washer with standard sized tub, and we had two teenage girls in the household. 

Good luck with these.  You'll enjoy them.

As already noted earlier, I would leave it alone.  When you do decide to replace the seal, you won't need to remove the brake package.  The transmission can be removed while leaving the tub break in place.  Just remove the screw on the bottom of the pulley, along with the lug and washer.  Spin the pulley off and the transmission will then lift off of the brake. 

That does look like an excellent dryer.  How does the electronic control work on those?  I see a timed dry option on the dial, so it clearly doesn't operate the same way as the electronic control does on the older CD series.

"These go to 11."

Oh Dan, we were all (including the younger of Dave's daughters) walking on eggs while the older one was living with us.  Hell on wheels is an understatement, but we got through it until Dave literally pushed her out the door a couple of months shy of her 18th birthday after finding yet another attempt to flush a used tampon plus the wrapper for the new one down the toilet.  It was the tampon that broke the camel's back.  He told her useless mother to come and get her.  We were so done.  We subsequently moved to a house with one less bedroom.

I blame this dropout daughter, long since out of the house, a convicted felon due to her stubbornness, stupidity and poor judgement, with three socially inept kids that she would only rarely allow Dave to see, for the massive stroke he had in November of 2009.   She and her kids have only spoken to him once since then, and that was at Dave's dad's funeral a couple of years ago.  Several years ago, all communication ceased with her and the rest of the extended family.

In sharp contrast, the younger daughter redeemed herself after tormenting our DG806 with metal bra supports that would get stuck in front of the drum opening and cause a scraping noise.  They were a bitch to extract.  She has two well behaved kids, a great husband, is a no-nonsense mom and put herself through school for a child development degree and operates her own family day care.   She no longer communicates with her older sister or any of her kids.   At this point, I'm this daughter's kids' only grandpa since Dave's assisted living facility is on lockdown and his capability for interaction had steadily become more and more limited even before COVID.

So you were kind of right.  Far more than a few of Dave's retirement years were stolen from him by that one daughter, even though it happened long after he kicked her out.

LOL Dan!  My FWB has an art piece in his living room entitled "Exit Strategy" with a big blue gas cylinder on a cube pedestal in a glass enclosure, all ready to go with tubing, face mask, and small metal hammer hanging on a chain to break the glass.  I should take a picture of it.

And yeah, she washed bras with jeans and everything got thrown into the dryer together too.  It's no wonder her bras were always falling apart.

I sure didn't sign up for a household with kids, but I think I'm a better person for having gone through it, even though I wasn't their dad and didn't feel I was in a position to take charge.  I learned a lot and even have a better tolerance for infants and toddlers as a result.  If anyone had told me this is how it was going to be, I would have said they were out of their mind.

Go ahead and check the inlet screens but there is a 95% chance you have a worn out inlet valve,

Replace it while you can still buy good replacements.

John L.