Washing machine bearings
Repair your washing machine rather than renewing it, Washing machine bearings are available for all makes and models of washing machines. Please use the search bar to locate the correct bearings for your appliance.
Can I fix my own washing machine? Some people can, and some people shouldn't even try. It depends on your competence, and understanding of electricity - especially DIY safety issues. Many washing machine breakdowns though are not serious, and can be repaired pretty easily - if you just know what to do.
You must be aware that electricity can and does kill - even qualified engineers. Never work on an appliance that is not totally unplugged. DIY repair safety and tips The following washing machine repair help contains general advice only. It may help to solve some basic washing machine faults that don't require an engineer, or to give an idea of how serious a fault may actually be. Never work on a washing machine that is still plugged in! Using this advice is at your own risk.
Washing machine has been spinning very loudly for a while. Today the spin was accompanied by a loud clanking noise. This clanking noise is still evident when I rotate the empty drum by hand. So, after searching on this website, I've come to the conclusion that the bearings are going/gone.
What is the cost of repair? Early posts I read suggested around £90. If this is the case and BEARING in mind it's 8 1/2 years old then I think a replacement machine is due.
However, want to double check the cost of a bearing repair first. Anyone had this done recently? (BTW It's a Zanussi machine)show you how to fit new drum bearings to a washing machine.
The drum bearings sit at the back behind the drum and allow the whole things to spin nice and smoothly. So how do you know if you need new drum bearings? Well one customer described it sounding like a concrete mixer on overdrive; it can make a real racket if the drum bearings have gone. The other thing is to look for the amount of movement between the drum and the outer tube. Now the bearings on this machine are fine, you can see there is no real movement there. But if your bearings have gone, the inner drum will move a lot in relation to the outer tub.
So in the rear part of the tub, here we can see the bearings in here, and that’s what we’re going to need to remove first. So here you can see the bearing seal. The large front bearing sits just behind that, and the smaller rear bearing someway set back from that. That’s how it’s arranged. So we’re going to start by punching out the old smaller rear bearing. I’ve got the whole tub sat on a couple of pieces of wood, just to give me a bit of clearance so I can punch that through.
And then I’m just going to put the chisel through and gently tap that bearing through. Just keep moving round, so we knock it out evenly. The main thing is that we don’t damage the casing that the bearing sits in. There we go.
Ok so same again for the front bearing, just going to punch that through. Now I’ve got the whole tub just resting on the table like this, that’s going to be fine. If yours has got plastic location lugs just make sure that you don’t snap those off. Put the whole thing up on some woods to give them some protection.
So again, just start tapping and working your way round. Don’t worry about the seal, that’ll just come off as the bearing comes out. There we go. So that’s the front bearing out, and the seal. Now next step; let’s give this a really good clean.
