Sometimes, I wonder!
Last week our clothes dryer started making a terrible clunk and squeak sound. I was not sure what was wrong so I had my wife call our trusted appliance guy who we have used on several occasions in the past. He is generally quick to respond and quick to fix the problem.
For some reason, we were not able to get ahold of him and our messages were not returned.
I have a real hard time with finding people I trust to come into my home and fix something so I was faced with the challenge.
Off to YouTube!
I have to admit, YouTube does make these projects easier and is generally helpful.
I found a couple of videos that covered the repair very well. It turns out that the most common reason for the problem is an idler pully assembly. or maybe a drum roller, or possibly the dry belt itself.
The good thing is that they sell a kit that contains all of these items.
Now for the FUN part
In order to replace this little pulley, you have to totally disassemble the dryer housing and remove the drum.
All of this had to be done to access this pulley!
So, this make me wonder what the engineer who designed this dryer was thinking as far as future access to essential parts of the machine.
I am no engineer and I generally have great respect for engineers but these kind of things really make me wonder.
Okay, so the first part is completed. Now I wait for the replacement parts to arrive and hopefully, I will not spend my entire day off this week putting this all back together.
Until next time,
John Novak
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