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Re: Fitting belt on Zanussi Dryer

For the benefit of someone looking at this forum at a later date, I have now just replaced the belt on my Zanussi TC481W Tumble Dryer. The symptoms were that the machine sounded like it was working normally and was still blowing hot air but the clothes were remaining damp and creased. Subsequently dawned on me that the drum was not rotating.

The back of the dryer had to be removed in order to get the new belt around the drum. By lying the dryer on it’s front, the drum was supported by the front bearing, allowing the retaining clip on the rear bearing to be removed, and the back lifted far enough up to reach in and place the new belt around the drum. Then, the back can be refitted, and the dryer stood upright, but the plastic cover in the bottom right hand corner – which protects the secondary drive belt to the fan – has to be off. The belt needs to come from the under side of the drum (LHS) across to the guide wheel, route clockwise around it and then down to the ribbed drive rotor, anti-clockwise around that and the up the RHS of the drum. In order to achieve that, the motor casing (DON’T FORGET TO UNPLUG THE DRYER!) needs to be rotated anti-clockwise against the spring tension putting the guide wheel in about the 10 o’clock position, rather than the 12 o’clock position that it naturally sits in.

Thanks to the information gained from this and other websites, it took a couple of hours, works like new now, and saved me a small fortune! 😀

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Re: Fitting belt on Zanussi Dryer

Thanks Penguin. Do you mean the entire back, or just the funny shaped bit to which the bearing is attached?

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