Thread Number: 84994
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
Maytag WU-1000 Belt tension/Vintage Appliance Report |
[Down to Last] | ![]() |
![]() |
Post# 1094495 , Reply# 1   10/25/2020 at 16:23 (1,569 days old) by qsd-dan (West)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
![]()      
![]() |
Post# 1094498 , Reply# 2   10/25/2020 at 17:27 (1,569 days old) by coldspot66 ![]() |
  | |
Checkrate/Likes
![]() 1    
Sounds like the belt. Not sure if a genuine Maytag belt is still available. If so, replace it with an oem belt. A new genuine belt does come with a bit of silicone grease to quiet the squeal. |
Post# 1094558 , Reply# 3   10/25/2020 at 21:05 (1,569 days old) by combo52 ![]() |
  | |
Checkrate/Likes
![]() 1    
![]() Indeed Grease the belt with Silicone grease, The MT service rep told us to put more on if it squeaks and take some off if it slips too much.
It was always a HSed way to build a DW, they should have used a Poly-Vee belt with an idler tensioner pulley, but MT was already at quite a cost disadvantage building a DW where the pump assembly had to have separate bearings and shaft because they could not use the motor bearings and shaft like every other DW built at the time, As soon as Emersion Electric could build a shorter motor MT immediately abandoned this expensive troublesome noisy design and continued building the RR DW till they figured out that they never were going to get a chance of having a decent share of the US DW market and redesigned the entire machine.
If such a DW was built today they would use a Stretch Poly Vee belt.
I have though about converting one of these DWs to a regular V belt with a tension pulley but I have never liked the limited load capacity of RR MT DWs so I will probably never brother unless the one we have in the museum gives us too many belt problems.
John L. |