Disassembling the Indesit washing machine
Under the Indesit brand, budget equipment is produced whose service life is not too long. And when a breakdown finally occurs, you have to think about what to do, repair it yourself or turn to specialists. If you repair it yourself, then first you need to figure out how to disassemble the Indesit washing machine? And not just take it apart, but take it apart in such a way that you can then reassemble it and everything will work. We decided to talk about how to do this.
What will you need?
Indesit washing machines are very similar in design to Ariston washing machines, but there is a difference between them and this difference, as always, is in the nuances. If you are interested in the process Ariston washing machine disassembly, you can read about this in one of our publications. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but first look at what tools we need for the job. In general, we can get by with a small suitcase with tools containing:
- open-end wrenches from 8 to 18 mm;
- set of heads and knobs;
- pliers;
- mites;
- screwdrivers of different configurations and sizes;
- a small set of socket wrenches;
- multimeter;
- hammer;
- hacksaw for metal;
- colored markers;
- awl.
If you don’t need to repair electrical equipment, then you can skip the multimeter and get by with a regular tester, and even then, just in case.
Having collected all the above tools, you can proceed to the next stage of preparation for work.
First stage
What's next? And then we will need to resolve the issue with the workplace, namely where we will disassemble the washing machine and lay out the disassembled parts so as not to lose anything necessary. The ideal place is a workshop, or at least a barn or garage. If there is neither one nor the other, nor the third, then you will have to disassemble the car right in the apartment, you just need to properly prepare the place.
- Clear a 2x2 meter section of the floor from carpets and other furnishings.
- Cover an area of the floor with rags and newspapers.
- Unplug the washing machine and drag it to the disassembly site.
- Remove the powder cuvette and set it aside.
- Unscrew the garbage filter with your own hands and drain the remaining water from the tank. Place the filter aside.
The tools, work place and Indesit machine are prepared, you can begin the analysis. First, remove the upper part of the machine body, namely the cover. There are two screws at the back in the upper right and left corners of the washing machine; they need to be unscrewed with a Phillips screwdriver. Then we slide the lid back towards us and lift it up.
Next, we will remove the service hatch cover with our own hands. It is located on the back wall of the Indesit washing machine; to do this, you will need to unscrew the 6 screws that hold it in place.
How to get to the tank?
By opening the service hatch and the top cover, we immediately gain access to some parts of the washing machine; this must be taken advantage of.
- Remove the belt from the pulley. To do this, you need to grab the drum pulley with one hand, the belt with the other, and turn the pulley - the belt will “jump off”.
We inspect the rear wall of the tank, which is located directly behind the pulley. If traces of oil and rusty streaks are visible on it, it means that the bearings are definitely broken and you will need to completely disassemble the machine to change them.
- We pull the wires from the contacts of the heating element and the temperature sensor, unscrew the central nut and carefully pull out the heating element. You can leave the heating element in the tank for now, but then you need to be very careful when disassembling it so as not to break off one of the protruding contacts.
- We remove the wires with chips from the washing machine motor. Take a 10 mm wrench and a 10 mm socket, or a long 10 mm socket wrench and unscrew the two bolts that secure the motor. We remove the engine and put it aside.
- Let's go upstairs. A heavy counterweight is attached to three bolts above the top wall of the tank; it must be removed. We take the same socket wrench and unscrew these bolts with our own hands, and then pull off the counterweight and move it to the side. When disassembling, be careful not to drop the counterweight on your foot.
Our tank is almost empty, there are some small things left, for example, removing the control panel. First, we unscrew the fasteners located near the niche for the powder receptacle. Then we unscrew another screw from the left front corner of the case. Now the control panel is held in place only by relatively weak latches.
We pull the panel up, and it safely pops out of the latches. In this case, the craftsmen have only one wish - do not pull the panel too sharply, otherwise you will tear off the wires and add problems to the Indesit washing machine. We disconnect the wires going to the intake valve and remove the control panel to the side, let it hang from the edge on the remaining wires.
Let's get to work on the hatch cuff. This large elastic band is secured with a special clamp; it must be removed without piercing the cuff. What are we doing?
- Find the cuff clamp.
- Carefully pry it up with a flat screwdriver.
- We go around the circle and find the mount.
- Unscrew the fastening and remove the clamp.
- We tuck the cuff deeper into the machine body.
What do we do next? And then we go around the back of the washing machine and unscrew the screw in the area where the inlet hose is connected to the machine. After this, we will be able to immediately pull out the inlet valve along with the powder receiver niche.
Attention! When removing the powder receiver niche, do not forget to disconnect its pipe, which is connected to the niche from below and is held on by a clamp.
Disconnect the wires from the water level sensor and remove the sensor itself from the plastic mount. At the same time, be extremely careful not to damage the mount itself and the sensor, otherwise you will have to buy and replace these elements; they still need to be found.
Now we place the washing machine on its left side. The Indesit washing machine has no bottom, so we immediately get access to the drain pipe and racks. It is these elements that will prevent us from removing the tank in the future, which means they need to be removed, without this further disassembly is impossible.
- We remove the two clamps that secure the drain pipe.
- We pull off the pipe.
- Using a 10 mm socket wrench, unscrew the screws that hold the posts in place and remove them.
- We put the car “on its feet” and we can consider that we have completed the main stage of disassembly; all that remains is to remove and disassemble the tank.
Disassembling the tank
The disassembly of the washing machine continues; we remove the tank. In this case, the tank of the Indesit washing machine is non-separable, but in order to change the bearings we need to remove and disassemble it. When removing the tank, use someone's help, since removing it alone is not so much difficult as it is inconvenient. We pull the tank off the springs and carefully lift it up, pulling it out of the body.
For your information! When pulling out the tank, be careful with the wires and cuff so as not to damage anything.
We place the removed tank vertically so that the soldered factory seam is at the top, and we will cut it. We take a hacksaw for metal and start sawing exactly along the seam. Try to do everything very carefully, because then we will need to place the tank halves on the sealant and screw them together.Let’s say right away that disassembling the tank of an Indesit brand washing machine is a very painstaking job; you can spend 6 hours straight on cutting, but the result should please you.
Having cut the tank, we can remove the front half and put it away immediately, and the rear half will remain on the drum shaft along with the bearings. Our task is to remove the rear half of the tank.
- Unscrew the nut holding the drum pulley.
- Remove the pulley from the shaft.
- We screw a bolt of suitable diameter into the thread (just not the one that was on the car).
- We lean a wooden block against this bolt.
- We hit the bolt through the block with a hammer. You need to hit it quite hard so that half of the tank comes off the shaft.
As soon as we manage to knock out half of the tank from the shaft, we are left with a drum with a shaft sticking out from behind, on which oil seals and bearings are mounted. To remove the bearings, you can go in two ways: firstly, get a car bearing puller somewhere and try to pull the bearings off with your own hands, secondly, you can bring the drum to a car repair shop and for a small fee ask local mechanics to remove the old bearings for you.
Once you manage to get rid of the old bearings, you can easily press fresh bearings and seals onto the shaft, and then reassemble the tank and the entire washing machine in the reverse order. We, in turn, really hope that disassembling your Indesit washing machine will be successful for you. Happy renovation!
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But if the pulley nut does not unscrew, what should I do, how to remove it? And is the thread in the drum shaft right or left? There is nothing about this..
I broke two bits, then took a more powerful soldering iron and placed it on the head of the bolt so that it warmed up for about 20-30 minutes and the locking glue was destroyed. Then I took a hex bit with a key, the screw actually unscrewed without effort, and before that I broke two bits, the threads were right-handed, after the repair I installed a hex head bolt.
In order not to waste 6 hours, I sawed the tank with a universal machine (for some reason in Leroy they call it a chisel) with a segmented nozzle at the lowest speed (with water - of course, otherwise the plastic will melt). I literally poured it drop by drop into the cut with a 20 cc syringe. It took about an hour to do everything.
How to glue the tank?