Good Afternoon guys.
Last night I finished the welding and cleaning on the bike cart. I put a coat of paint on it, which
almost dried overnight, so I reassembled the cart.
The weak spot in the whole deal was the gooseneck tube where it clamps to the frame. I did not want it to kink, and so I reinforced it seriously at this point.
I did this with a torch and it’s not real pretty but it does have a serial number stamped on the gooseneck. “EMT”.
Halfway through doing that my washing machine started making a very strange noise. When it was through washing I grabbed a 1/2” socket and took a good look underneath.
The nut on the big pulley which drives the drum and the transmission had come loose. This is a known problem if you have one of these top loading Maytag, Kenmore, roper, etc washers with LED control panel.
Mine got so loose that it cut a whole through the belt guard but this made it easy to tighten the nut. I tipped it up on a small jackstand, and I had my wife hold the drum while I tightened the nut on the main pulley. But when I put the machine back down it did not work.
I picked it up again, and this time I removed the belt guard completely, because I realized that the belt had fallen completely off the big pulley. Here’s what it looks like.
This is a spare Drive unit from my old machine and fortunately I didn’t have to put it in.
You have to loosen two half inch motor mount bolts to relieve the tension, but then you can put it right back on.
Anyhow it works perfectly now and I don’t think there was any permanent damage, but I left off the damaged belt guard.
You can see how the loose pulley cut right through the plastic.