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Anyone give advice on which parts are generally required to a bearing change on one of these? I have usually fought these off as BER :rolls:
Parts I suspect that may be required:
Drum spider? does it come with fixing bolts or do I have to get a inner drum/spider complete?
Drum bearings or is it a outer drum complete with bearings
Drum front seal?
Element?How much time sould be allowed to effect this repair?
Thanks
MalRe: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
97910319 – shaft – no fixings listed
04240155 – tub – no bearings listed
92131689 – front plate sealA solid two hours work. Heater in from back, so should be OK.
Chris.
Re: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
The bearing kit is the same as the Zanussi small shaft kit – 6204 and 6205 bearings and the seal measures the same. I have done quite a few of these and never needed a spider. The machine has to be dismantled by removing the timer and all components and hanging them outside the cabinet.Remove the hoses and suspension leg pins. I then attach my winch to the drum assembly and lift it out of the cabinet. The drum then splits like a Zanussi Nexus and the bearing removal / refitting is identical.
Labour intensive job – the winch makes it a lot easier. Allow yourself a good amount of time – it’s not the quickest bearing job. Nonetheless, not too difficult!! 😉Steve.
Re: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
aqualectric wrote:The bearing kit is the same as the Zanussi small shaft kit – 6204 and 6205 bearings and the seal measures the same. I have done quite a few of these and never needed a spider. The machine has to be dismantled by removing the timer and all components and hanging them outside the cabinet.Remove the hoses and suspension leg pins. I then attach my winch to the drum assembly and lift it out of the cabinet. The drum then splits like a Zanussi Nexus and the bearing removal / refitting is identical.
Labour intensive job – the winch makes it a lot easier. Allow yourself a good amount of time – it’s not the quickest bearing job. Nonetheless, not too difficult!! 😉Steve.
Thanks Chris and SteveMmmm bit of a cleft stick situation I thinks 😕 I wouldn’t be happy doing the bearings without a spider (back to my Hotpoint days) it would be sods law to open up the drum and find that it required one 😳 more delay in the repair time. I wonder why the spider fixings arn’t listed?
Re: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
I did a spider only job on one of these about a year ago – total pig of a job getting the old spider off. Seem to remember ordinary hpt bolts fitted OK. Bearings at the time seemed fine so replaced b. seal and reassembled. Got a call a week or two ago – “noise like a bag of spanners in there”. Flippin’ bearings were shot. Called it a BER as there was no way I was going through that again.
Mike.Re: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:. Seem to remember ordinary hpt bolts fitted OK.
Think I had to drill the drum holes out a bit though.
Mike.Re: Hoover AL130-01 Drum bearing change
All the ones I have done have not come back – actually put a pump on one I repaired over a year ago at the beginning of this month. Obviously down to discretion on the shaft condition though.
Suffice to say, I would generally only do this job if work was slow…… 😉Steve.
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