Bearing Kit for Dryer
I ordered this kit as I was doing a general overhaul of the dryer: belt, glides, and the bearing. In truth, the old bearing was highly serviceable, and I could likely have gone on for much longer with the old bearing, just putting some new grease into the nylon bearing cup. In fact, to me it wasn't clear thet the nylon bearing cup was included in the kit and I ordered one of those separately:
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Anyway, not a lot of money spent.
In rehabing the dryer, I would suggest that the bearing might be in pretty good shape, and that, at most, only replacing the nylon bearing cup/retainer would be called for, plus adding new grease.
What really probably slows down the drum and puts strain on the motor are the glides. Glide kits are available here, and should probably be changed every few years to keep the drum spinning freely.
Dryer part
We saw the part on the web and it beat the price by 2/3 the price locally at the part house around here and it was a good savings and worked great for the job at hand. Now we have a quite dryer.
Very pleased
My husband and I were able to fix our horrendously squeaky dryer in a little less than 1.5 hours for only $16 (inc. shipping)! We are novice DIY'ers so if you're more advanced it will probably take much less time. We were also being careful not to wake a napping baby, so that probably affected our time to complete the installation. We didn't use the enclosed instructions, but a blog we found online with step by step pictures. You really need 2 people to put the ball bearing in (one inside the dryer and one behind the dryer), and also to put the drum back in (one to hold the drum in place and one to put the screws in).
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