How to Troubleshoot & Replace Ge AP2043582 / WE18X26 Lint Filter

Ordered a new lint filter from AppliancePartsPros.com and replaced it. 

Looked up the part Order it and when it came in replaced the old part with the new. 

Replaced. 

Ordered new one. 

Bought a replacement filter and popped it in! 

By some miracle, the chat person found my right part. it came. It fit! I had been extremely worried about all the lint plastered everywhere around dryer. I know the whole thing should be cleaned out for fire safety, but STEP 1 - new lint filter will stop more lint from accumulating. New part is an original GE part which makes me feel very secure. Thankful for appliancepartspros.com. 

Removed four screws on the front of the dryer allowing the top to fold back. Loosen 2 10mm bolts on the bottom front face and remove 2 10mm bolts on the inside under the top hood. Remove the face of the dryer, then remove the drum to clean stray lint and inspect the tension "idler" pully and motor, removed rear access by the exhaust, reinstalled drum with the belt hanging from it, reinstalled front face, and closed hood reinstalling the hardware, used exhaust access to set the belt on the motor with the tensioner pully, boom jobs done! 

Disassembled the dryer (really easy) and removed the cracked drum, found the culprit to the scraping noise (a hair clip that found its way through the crack), cleaned the lint from all of the parts and internals then reassembled. 

Replaced. 

Bought a new one here. It was as fast to order a new replacement as it took to pull out and replace it.