Any Washing Machine Engineers Reading This?

[Stargazer]

I have a Whirlpool AWE6517 top loader washing machine. I have checked the filter which is clean. I want to take the (side?) off to look at the belt and probably replace it with one I can order online. However it is not clear on this machine how to remove either side to gain access. The call out charge is £85 plus parts on top of that so I intend to have a look myself first. The only problem with it is that it is not spinning the clothes as dry as it should (1000 rpm). It is 4 years old and the belt ought not to have slackened as soon as this but I can't think of anything else. If any engineer knows this machine please tell me how to access the insides?

[Clanad]

Here you go:



(You may have to sit thorugh the first one and then select your problem from the frames following)

[Stargazer]

Thank you for that. I will look at the clip later as I am just going out of the house.

[Stargazer]

Clanad, Sadly that did not help.My machine is four years old and is quite different from the one shown which is quite an old model by the looks of it. It also may be an American model. My one was like my older Philips machine but Philips has now become Whirlpool and it is all electronic whereas my last one was easier to fiddle about with (interrupt cycle without losing all the water for example). Any further advice would be much appreciated.

[Clanad]

When I input Philips as a search on Google it comes up with this:



Any help?

[pinkyboyid]

If you manage to access and change the belt ok, if possible also check the state of the Carbon Brushes within the Motor. If they are badly worn, that could also be a potential source of intermittent spin speed.

[Stargazer]

This video clip is no use either. I am sure you do not have to tip the machine right over to access the belt on the bottom of the machine. The one illustrated is a much older model. No doubt Whirlpool do not expect customers to change belts themselves. On the front of my machine at the bottom is the filter cover to check that the filter is clean which is how I know that the two models on these clips are quite different as to how to access the belt.

[buildersmate]

This seems to be the second attempt at asking the same question, so it isn't clear what you are anticipating now after the last time around.

I'm not familiar with pulling these machines apart (so I didn't answer yesterday) but having looked at what Clanad gave you yesterday, it isn't clear exactly what you want.

If I was doing this, I'd look all round the perimeter of the outside looking for fixings that hold one side/rear/front whatever to the other. It should also be possible to see which piece of pressed steel went on last (so comes off first). If there are no fixing around the perimeter, it does seem one accesses the gubbins from the bottom, so tip it up and see.

[Stargazer]

I have managed to get the side off. Whirlpool certainly do not want anyone other than those of their trained service personnel to be able to do this as the final nut which was prevening me from getting the panel off was located out of sight underneath the front of the machine and was only accessible by tilting the machine and looking for it with a torch.