How to remove and disassemble the washing machine tank?

Many owners of household appliances are familiar with such a problem with the washing machine as extraneous noise, very high vibration. One of the reasons for the appearance of such a problem may be the ingress of various foreign objects into individual nodes of the machine. For example, you can detect a hit:

• metal money
• all kinds of buttons
• metal button
• pitted from a female bra
• and etc.

And then the question may arise before us:

How to remove the drum of the washing machine and at the same time leave other parts unharmed?

Of course, in this matter it is best to understand with the help of professionals. But if you are going to solve the problem on your own, then you should study this article and follow the tips written in it.

Getting ready for the process

How can we remove the drum of our housekeeper? The initial task is to twist the disposable tank. In this situation, after the end of all work, you will need to replace the tank, if it is disposable. There is also the possibility of assembling a disposable tank with sealant, bolts and ingenuity. However, we cannot recommend this method, since it may not be reliable enough.

How the drum of the washing machine is disassembled will become known very soon. This work will only need to be done when the dismantling of the drum cross is required. When wearing a bronze bushing, the crosspiece will require a mandatory replacement.

Video of replacing bearings with removing and disassembling the tank

In the entry that we added below, you will see the entire process of disassembling the washing machine, as well as removing and disassembling its tank. And bearing replacement.

Despite the fact that the recording was made in English, the actions of the wizard will be clear. And just repeating after him, you will do everything that is necessary.

Getting to work

And so, you have already disassembled your typewriter. What to do next?

Remove the tank of your machine only when necessary. That is, it is necessary to change the damaged bearings or to remove a foreign object from the tank.

The structure of the tank itself is quite diverse in different models. But the whole process of dismantling is the same. And it begins with the extraction of the locking pulley of your machine. It is fixed to the drum shaft with a special nut or bolt in the center of this part. In our case, unscrew this locking element of the pulley is necessary not in the clockwise direction, but in the opposite direction. And before that, it will be necessary to block the pulley with a bar, in order to prevent it from scrolling along with the drum shaft.

In most cases, it is not very easy to unscrew the bolt, this is due to the fact that it has a special composition, poured in and fixing this bolt, in order to prevent it from unscrewing itself during the operation of the washing machine. So, if suddenly there were difficulties in the process of unscrewing the pulley bolt in the washing machine, then try to do this by pre-heating it with a gas burner. In this case, the metal expands and our bolt, in the end, will turn out to unscrew. But it should be noted that the use of a gas burner implies maximum forethought. And if you decide to use it, then you will do it at your own peril and risk.

After we have twisted a bolt, it is necessary to carefully remove a machine pulley. The process of pulling the pulley of the washing machine is as follows: It needs to be pulled over and swing in different directions. Then it will be necessary to knock the shaft out of the bearing of the machine. In this, again, a wooden block will help us. Knocking out must be done until the shaft is at the same level with the bearings. Or until the stage when the drum begins to abut against the front of the washing machine tub.

We unwind the tank without fail around the circumference. In some models of washing machines, it is considered advisable to use latches or brackets as an analogue to bolts, but the most important thing does not change from this. As soon as the bolts are unscrewed along all the boundaries of the tank, we should definitely check if there are any locking elements that connect the halves of the tank to each other. Now you have learned how the drum of the washing machine is disassembled - you just need to separate the two parts of the tank. And then the drum can be removed without much effort.