ALLIANCE AA9231 Service page 50

Section 5 Service Procedures
To reduce the risk of electric shock, fire, explosion, serious injury or death:
• Disconnect electric power to the washer before servicing.
• Never start the washer with any guards/panels removed.
• Whenever ground wires are removed during servicing, these ground wires must be
reconnected to ensure that the washer is properly grounded.
l. Remove hose clamp holding pressure hose to
pressure accumulator and remove hose. Then
remove tape holding pressure hose to outer tub.
m. Grasp outer tub and lift tub (with washtub,
transmission, balance ring and pivot dome
attached) straight up and out of washer cabinet.
n. Turn complete tub assembly upside-down on
protective padding.
o. Remove screw, washer and helix holding drive
pulley to transmission shaft. Refer to Figure 35.
p. Remove drive pulley from transmission shaft.
Refer to Figure 35.
q. Remove large, flat washer from transmission
shaft. Refer to Figure 35.
r. Use a right angle needle nose pliers and remove
spring from around lower transmission tube
(located inside brake assembly).
NOTE: Remove spring by turning in a
COUNTERCLOCKWISE direction (looking at
bottom end of shaft).
IMPORTANT: When installing spring, be sure it is
inserted into groove in large splines of lower
transmission tube. Use spring tool, No. 242P4, for
installing spring.
s. Remove three screws and rubber sleeves
holding brake pads to lower bearing housing.
Refer to Figure 36.
t. Lift brake assembly, pads and spacer off
transmission tube.
u. Remove three screws holding lower bearing
housing to tub support legs. Refer to Figure 36.
v. Rotate bearing housing past legs, then carefully
lift bearing housing off transmission tube.
NOTE: It may be necessary to loosen one leg from
pivot dome to rotate housing. It may require
tapping lightly on housing to loosen it from the
transmission tube.
IMPORTANT: When installing lower bearing
housing, apply No. 27604P Anti-Seize compound to
the area of transmission tube that will be contacting
bearing. Refer to Figure 37.
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Marked Side
of Balance
Ring
Apply
Anti-Seize
Compound
to this area
of both the
upper and lower
transmission
tubes.
TO REMOVE BEARING
a. Support bearing housing around outside
diameter of bearing opening and carefully press
bearing out of the housing.
b. Clean all foreign material from inside diameter
of bearing opening.
c. Clean any foreign material from outside
diameter of new bearing.
d. Apply a retaining compound (such as Loctite)
to outside diameter of new bearing and
carefully press new bearing into housing (with
sealed side facing up).
IMPORTANT: Press new bearing into housing by
pressing on outer race of bearing only, and press
until bearing bottoms out in housing.
Balance
Rack Area
of Transmission
Transmission
Assembly
Figure 37
W003
Ring
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