Changing Drum Bearings on a John Lewis JLWM1201

[Caesar]

Dear All

Time has come sadly too early to replace the Drum Bearings on my John Lewis JLWM 1201 as they really sound awful on spin.

PLease can anyone advise who makes this washing machine ie. which manufacturer, what bearings and parts I would need and where I can source them from and lastly are they straight forward to replace or do I need specialist tools such as Bearing Pullers etc?

Lastly what should i replace apart from the bearings i.e covers, springs etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks all.

 

[tonto33]

http://www.zanussi.co.uk/node123.as...17044&model=JLWM1201&prod_no=&model_type=JLWM 1201

 

[rocks1]

As far as I know it's a Heinz 57 bits of every thing try and goolgle or ask j Lewis.

 

[Caesar]

Dear Tonto33 and Rocks1

Many thanks for your reply, from the URL supplied I gather Front and Rear Bearings are all that are required? What about when you split the plastic Drum Cover do you not need a new gasket for that? What about the spider is a new one needed etc?

Rang John Lewis but appears no one could explain to me who actually manaufacturers the appliance though seems like it is Zanussi from the URL given, many thanks.

 

[Leccy758]

You will need the bearings and bearing seal for the rear of the drum. the seal between the drum halves rarely perishes so is usually ok (if you want to be sure replace it or smear some fernox LX around it 'found in pluming departments')

The spider you wont know untill you look at it, no one can see how corroded it is or if it has a crack till you split the drum. If is is obviously broken the drum will rarely turn smothly if at all.

 

[Caesar]

Dear Leccy758

Many thanks for the informative reply, do you need to buy a Bearing Puller to get the bearings off? If so which make and where from can I purchase this? many thanks.

 

[Leccy758]

I personally drift them out with some old bearings ground down to fit and a selection of drifts with a wood block cut to fit and drilled with holes for the bearings to drop out through.

As long as you dont go mad most of them come out fairly easily and cleanly with drifts.

 

[Caesar]

Dear All

Many thanks for all the Helpful replies I received. Finally under took this task after sourcing the bearings and drum gasket. The job was no mean feat and dismantling the Machine was really difficult. In the end we managed to extract the Drum but the seperating the Pulley from the Shaft and then the shaft from the Outer Plastic drum proved to be really difficult and spent 2 hours drifting the shaft off. When the shaft was finally freed, the inner Bearing had totally disintegrated leaving just the inner race still stuck fast on the shaft. The shaft itself was in a really poor condition and the spider looked as if it needed to be replaced.

The Outer Drum casing housing the bearings also looked in very poor condition and after surveying the parts I unfortunately deemed it far too uneconomical to continue with the repair on this occassion. I learnt a lot from attempting this repair about washing machines and would advise anyone attempting to do this type of work to do so as soon as they hearing the Bearings are failing as a delay as in my case means the bearings corroded and welded themselves on to the Spider shaft which makes removing the whole assembly very very difficult.

Once again many thanks to all.