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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 12:04 pm |
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Trying to help Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology 
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You would want to put the pulley around the drum outside the unit and use it to support your drum as you lift it back in. On the right hand side there is a space above the blower and next to your cork/teflon glides that you can get your right hand through. I just use my one hand to put it on through there, others also will put there left hand though the space to the left of the Blower approximately center of the dryer to assist as well. I have very large arms but can still get my hand/hands to work in there. You first put the belt around your motor pulley, then you can just push the idler pulley over and slip your belt uner it to take up the tension.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 12:35 pm |
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jimcpl Grasshopper
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Trying to help wrote: You would want to put the pulley around the drum outside the unit and use it to support your drum as you lift it back in. On the right hand side there is a space above the blower and next to your cork/teflon glides that you can get your right hand through. I just use my one hand to put it on through there, others also will put there left hand though the space to the left of the Blower approximately center of the dryer to assist as well. I have very large arms but can still get my hand/hands to work in there. You first put the belt around your motor pulley, then you can just push the idler pulley over and slip your belt uner it to take up the tension. Hi, I'm assuming that when you said "You would want to put the pulley around the drum", you meant "You would want to put the belt around the drum". Is that correct? There doesn't seem to be much space to fit your arms through the areas you mentioned (not meaning to dispute what you said), so are you basically working "by feel" when you are manipulating the belt around the pulley, etc.? Jim
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 02:11 pm |
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Trying to help Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology
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Yes I meant the belt. I do it 100% by feel because I have done it so many times. If you leaned to the left you might be able to see what you are doing. There is not a lot of room but enough to get your arms in. The small opening on the right is the cause of many an arm scrape! TIght yes, but definitely enough room to manipulate the belt around the motor pulley then the idler over the belt.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 03:47 pm |
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Pegi Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology 
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And have the bandaids ready, these machines will eat skin....GE's are no better with the new design...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 04:14 pm |
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Mad Mac Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology 
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Give Blood......but you may find that blood is not enough 
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25th, 2005 09:06 pm |
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jimcpl Grasshopper
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Hi, We've took the machine apart, and have been "practicing" putting things back together, and I have some more questions (sorry  ):1) On this model (Maytag PYE2000AYW), am I correct that the ribbed side of the belt is towards the drum surface? 2) The belt path looks different from the "E" figure at: http://www.repairclinic.com/referral.asp?R=154&P=174 I think that ours should follow the "F" figure: http://www.repairclinic.com/0079.asp#DiagramF Is this correct? 3) When we put everything together, the machine ran, but it made a "rattling" sound as it ran. I think that we may not have seated the rear flange of the drum on top of the rear rollers, but we can't figure out how you do that, as it seems you need to somehow squeeze the drum flange between the roller and the felt thing on the bulkhead. Can you tell me if there's a trick to getting the drum flange seated properly? Thanks, Jim
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 02:35 am |
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Trying to help Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology
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As you are putting the lip of the drum into place, rotate it in the normal spin direction while applying pressure and it should seat itself. This unit would have the belt ribbed side down and YES, follow the example listed as F under the Magic Chef heading..... oh yea, are we bleeding yet??
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 04:42 am |
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jimcpl Grasshopper
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Hi, Thanks for the answers. We've been going through some "dry runs" with the old parts, taking the machine apart and putting the machine back together again, and we found something that to me is strange. We opened up the blower housing and we found a bunch of beige colored "dust" all over the inside of the housing. At first, we couldn't figure out what that was, but after pulling the retaining clips off of the motor shaft and pulling the motor out, I think that I now know. It looks like, for some reason, the motor was originally mounted wrong or poorly. First of all, you could move the shaft up and down, and it looks like the inner retaining ring shaved a bunch of material off of the hole, so the hole is no longer round. From looking at the motor and the back (inside side) of the blower housing, it looks like you're suppose to "twist and lock" the motor into the collar on the back of the blower housing (there are small offset "ears" around the inside of the color and raised areas on the round area thing around the motor shaft. I think that the motor was not locked in like that, but was just shoved into the collar, so it wasn't being held firmly in place. I don't know if that was the cause of the original problem or not, because now I think that if we want to fix this, we may have to replace the blower housing also . This is starting to turn into a real "adventure", and my wife is starting to (literally) breathe down my neck about it because we now have piles of dirty clothes waiting! Jim P.S. Absolutely no bleeding (from the repair attempt at least) so far, thanks to all the advice from you all.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 04:46 am |
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jimcpl Grasshopper
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P.S. The blades of the blower wheel were also kind of messed up. It looks like because the motor shaft was not correctly set, the blades were hitting the inside of the blower housing, which both damaged the blades and probably scraped more material off the inside of the blower housing...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 03:21 pm |
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Pegi Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology
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Is beginning to look like this dryer was not "NEW" when you bought it, perhaps a return or a shop repair and resold, what with the clip missing on the blower wheel and the motor not mounted right.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 11:11 pm |
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Pegi Fellow, Academy of Sublime Masters of Appliantology
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Just ran across something that may explain why your motor was off mounted??? This is from 1999 and addresses 1998 Dryers...does this fall into the right time frame of the age of your dryer? This would be too late to address the damaged bearings on your motor but might explain what you are seeing about the motor mounting.. Blower Wheel Hitting Blower Housing, MODELS: PRODUCT TYPE: NEPTUNE, ATLANTIS & ELECTRIC & GAS DRYERS 1998 DEPENDABLE CARE DRYERS, COMPLAINT Blower wheel rubbing against the blower housing causing the blower wheel to cut through it. The motor mounts appear twisted causing the blower wheel to also be twisted and then rub against the housing. CAUSE The motor mounts can be damaged in shipping. With the left to right pull of the drum belt on the motor, along with an abrupt strike to the cabinet on the right side, the mass of the motor itself can bend the motor bracket. The reason some customers do not see this right away is that the bracket was slightly bent in shipping. Then with daily usage of the dryer, with the drum belt pulling on the motor pulley, the rubber cushions of the motor take a set. When this occurs, the blower wheel starts rubbing on the blower housing. Manufacturing is adding the holes to the baseframe and the motor mount in August, to add a 5/16" HD, #10 screw to secure the motor mount to the baseframe. REMEDY The fix would be to replace the motor mount and secure the rear tab of the motor mount into the baseframe. To secure a motor mount without the screw hole in the mounting bracket and the base, drill a 5/32" hole through both the bracket and the base. Secure with a #10 screw, part number 313561.
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