Recent content by ATR155

Just thought id update.........decided to have another go, traced the noise back to the actual motor. When moving the spindle, heard some noise and noticed a bit of excess play. Decided to strip the motor down, took out the spindle and one of the bearing definately had more play in it than the...

Took the pulley of and checked it while i was there, wasn't that

Took the fan off today, spun drum by hand, noise still there. Disconnected belt, spun drum, no noise. Spun motor arm that fan was attached too, no noise. Connected belt again, spun drum by hand, noise is back. . Im guessing either the motor is on its way out, or the drum is rubbing against...

Cheers, i meant more how to gain access to the fan, by taking the sides off or from the front?

Thanks, that's the area where I thought the noise was coming from this morning when I was having a look funnily enough, didn't have time to, but was thinking of removing the fan, is that easy enough to do?

Iv got the same dryer, and what sounds like the same problem as you have described, any progress with it yet? Im just about to open her up and take a look....