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Thread Number: 8592
Removing turquoise agitator on 1982 Maytag? |
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Post# 161899 , Reply# 1 10/22/2006 at 11:46 (6,395 days old) by pulsator  (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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If yoyr certain that there is no screw holding the agitator in, then this agitator is the kind held in by a rubber washer of sorts. It may be hard to do, but you simply have to pull up on the agitator. I'd recommend pouring some very hot water down the center of the agitator to help loosen things up a bit. When you pull up, I wouldn't pull on the base of the agitator, pull on the center column of the agitator. As for the lint filter, when you pulled it out, you should notice the sides of the filter are a plastic screen, that's where the lint collects. On the side of the agitator itself, you'll notice 4 columns of 3-4 holes. When the agitator is washing/ rinsing, it creates currents that turn over in the drum. kinda like if you twisted a doughnuts center to the outside. Anyway, the water coming up to the top on the outisde then moves in toward the agitator and back down, this action provides a flow of water through the holes on the side of the agitator, the water then flows through the lint screen and then comes out by the base of the agitator. This is a modern agitator however, it explains the turning over action of the water with the arrows.
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Post# 161913 , Reply# 2 10/22/2006 at 13:14 (6,395 days old) by kenwashesmonday (Carlstadt, NJ) |
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The one on my A606 was really stuck. I ran a bunch of clothesline rope up and down inside the center part of the agitator, and attached the web of rope to a slidehammer. It came off, it had no choice. :-) Now I remove the agitator once a month to clean so it won't get stuck again. Ken | ||
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Post# 161915 , Reply# 3 10/22/2006 at 13:36 (6,395 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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I feel like Lisa Douglas asking this question:
What's a slidehammer? I did exactly what you did with the rope, looping it under all 4 fins. Attached the rope to a metal pole and tried levering the whole thing up but only succeeded in lifting the entire *&^$$&@&!! washer and wrenching my back. Kept feeling like the Coyote in the roadrunner cartoon; expecting any minute to either explode or fall down a cliff.
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