Great motor for the price with outstanding service
The good news is that this is a great replacement for the motor in our Kenmore dryer at half the price for of an American made motor. This motor is made in China and the frame is less rugged than the American version. It also is slightly louder but well within the acceptable range especially if you have a door on your laundry room. (We always keep our door closed anyway.)
The bad news is that the first motor I received made such a loud noise that my wife thought it was the buzzer that sounds when your close are dry. When I reported this to the seller they sent me an RMA along with a UPS mailing label that did not include home pickup but the local UPS office was nearby so not big deal.
Installing the motor requires that the dryer drum be removed and that the impeller fan be removed from the motor shaft. Taking the impeller off the shaft presented a little problem because it is not obvious how it is attached. I waited until the new motor arrived and found...
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Our dryer went and, after much research, discovered we needed a new motor. After having great luck with Amazon and finding awesome deals, I figured I'd order it here. When it arrived, one major telltale sign (that it wasn't the right one) didn't stick out right away so, in my excitement of having a working dryer, I ran downstairs to put it in. It didn't set right so it made it really hard to get the spring clamps back on. Then once I got it all back together and turned it on, there was an awful scraping sound. Upon investigation, the blower fan was now rubbing on the housing of the dryer vent. Ripped it apart again and compared it to the bad motor. Stood them on their ends and the new motor was a half-inch shorter pulley end to blower fan end of the shaft. On a repair forum, someone suggested maybe it was another motor and posted a pic and that's when everything clicked.
On the blower fan end of the motor shaft, the collar around the bearings is BLUE. The new one I...
Tremendously loud
Part arrived very quickly from supplier. No trouble there. Supplied motor was a perfect mechanical replacement for the motor in a 25 year-old Kenmore dryer. My old motor had no wiring harness or plug; all the wires were connected individually.
Had the usual trouble (read other reviews) getting the blower fan off. No need for it to be that tight, considering the fan and threads are made of plastic with a square mounting shaft. It is incredibly easy to round this shaft off, no matter how careful you are. Believe it or not, I had to finally use an air impact wrench on the front motor shaft to remove the fan.
Part came with two sets of wiring instructions...one larger and one smaller, apparently identical copies of each other. Followed the wiring instructions, would not start. Two frustrating hours later, examined both sets of instructions with a magnifying glass, and noted that they were completely identical, except for the placement of one wire!! Of course...
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