Front or Rear Drum Felt Seal WP314820

Took it apart according to the videos, replaced about all moving parts (almost). Put it back together and still made noise. It turned out to be the blower wheel. Ordered a new blower wheel and installed it. Works great and has mostly all new parts. The website was great!!

Pull the front off of the dryer found the front Found the drum front glides, worn out and rubbing metal to metal also tested the cycling thermostat found that it was faulty, causing the no heat problem. Ordered the cycling thermostat and new glide kits to prevent any further problems.

Fairly easy, with lots of disassembly easy replacement, and lots of reassembly.

I took off the front of the dryer with the screws at the bottom. I removed what wires would easily come off and took a picture to remember where they go. Then I took of the front panel and had to take off the cover for the blower wheel. Some screws were difficult to reach because they were in a very tight space. I used a combination of ne ... Read more edle nose pliers and a hex screw bit to loose hared to reach hex screws.
For the felt seal on the front panel, I used a flathead screwdriver to remove the old seal and replace the new seal. The most tricky thing was making sure the seal was laying right along the drum when putting the front panel back on. Once back together, the skidding sound disappeared.
Replacing the blower wheel is pretty easy once I got past the difficult screws holding the cover down. I used snap ring pliers to remove the snap ring then put the new blower wheel on and put it all back together. I found that the tip diameter of the snap ring pliers needed to be less than 0.05'' to fit into the snap ring holes of both the snap rings for the roller wheels and the blower wheel.

My Maytag w/d are 33 yrs old. They’ve gone through 5 kids. My dryer had never required repair, I repaired my washer several yrs ago. (Water pump). My dryer stopped heating up. I first started with cleaning and replacing exhaust system. That didn’t correct the problem, so I went to the thermal fuse, which was easy to change but still wasn’ ... Read more t the problem. I then removed the drum to get at the heating element. When I removed the drum I found out that all the felt seals were falling apart. I didn’t think that was the problem but figured I might as well change them while I was in there. I ordered the seals and the heating element. Removing and replacing the heating element was very easy. Removing the old felt seals was a little harder. My dryer does not have the clips, it was glued on. It took some time to remove most of the glue and install the new seals. After putting it all back together it worked great. Hopefully I’ll get another 30 yrs!!!

Removed the front panel and top of dryer. Removed the drum front support and drum from dryer then removed the rear drum support.
Remove the old felt seal both front and back. Vacuumed and cleaned the interior of the dryer blowing out the heat coils and controls on the front panel. Removed and replaced the front guides and install ... Read more ed new rollers. Removing the old glue holding the felt required a heat gun and scraper. New felt was installed with the proper glue and clamped in place for 12 hours. Assemble the the dryer in reverse order.

1)Unplug dryer, 2)remove front door assembly, 3)remove the blower tumbler front, 4)disconnect belt, 5)eased out tumbler, 6) replace parts, 7)assembled in reverse order, 8) finally test operative. Wife rewarded me with peanut butter an jelly sandwich.

I followed the videos provided, the only think I would added is cleaning the riding surface of the drum. In my case the drum had gunk on it from the old pads, witch got on the new pads causing it to continued to make noise.

It would be wise to also get the felt and belt, to replace them all the first time.

This website is awesome. After imputing my dryer model I was able to select from the list if symptoms my issue...Dryer will not start. From there was percentage of issues that would cause my issue. After determining it was the motor (after 25 years who would have thought that!!!). In this process I discovered other non related issues that ... Read more i should attend to. So I basically rebuilt the dryer and it worked right away. I am retired military and in the tax preparation/representation business now, so a lot of this was new to me. The detailed instruction and especially the videos provided foolproof methods to complete each of the repairs. It was a little time consuming but very easy to complete. I did gain some new tools and diagnostic equipment that will come in handy in the future. Now I am going to tackle my daughters dishwasher. Thank you Parts Select and Steve (on the videos). John Beazle

The repair was easy. New felt fit after the tabs were bent out some. Then just tape tabs back into place. Drum turns fine now, but ran it too long with tight drum. Motor is toast.