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had to go and buy tap&die set for the timer screws
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pasqual from Escondido, CA
A Bit Difficult
More than 2 hours
Screw drivers
had to make treads for the screws on the timer
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Original timer would not advance through cycles.
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Joyce from Cape Coral, FL
Easy
1- 2 hours
Nutdriver, Screw drivers
The repair was easy to do. I removed the back panel from the control console of my Kenmore washer. Taking out the old timer was just a matter of removing two screws and the control knob from the front of the panel. Then I unplugged a connector block and disconnected one other wire by pulling it out of a wire nut which it was designed to d
... Read moreo. When I proceeded to install the new timer, I discovered that the two screws from the front of the panel were slightly larger than the threaded holes in the new timer. I went to Home Depot and bought a size 10/32 tapping drill bit which I used to enlarge the threaded screw holes in the new timer. It was very simple to do. This added more time to the installation. Had I not encountered this problem, I could have installed the new timer in less than an hour, but at the same time, I learned how to solve the problem. The new timer works fine.