How to Troubleshoot & Replace Whirlpool AP4010226 / 12002533 Door Boot Seal

Replaced the door boot seal and tub seal. Watched a repair video and that made the process much easier as it described what need to be done and in what order. It was great see the very quick delivery, all parts were complete and correct. 

I watched your video 3 or 4 times and then proceeded, at first I could not get tabs into slots, after figuring out to put in on correct angle, the project went fine. IT went easier than I thought. The video was super in helping me. 

I appreciated your video! It was easy to fix, I followed the video's directions exactly. It was a bit time consuming, but very do-able. It is working great! Thanks!! Dana 

The video provided on your site gave me all the know how I needed to replace the parts. Thank you for offering a great service. 

I replaced the inner door panel, vent grommet, and door boot seal. Replacing these items was pretty straightforward, especially with the repair videos playing in the background. The only "challenging" things were getting the boot attached to the drum area and removing/reattaching the spring+cable around the boot seal. The total time also includes cleaning the inside of the washer and using some anti-rust jelly on the top panel near the detergent door. Washer is working great now. 

Watched a you tube video showing how to take machine apart. It came apart just like it was supposed to, and went back together pretty easily, too. 

Order part..video made job easy, without the video I would not have figured out how to get the washing machine. disassembled. 

I disassembled the washing machine with the help of the online repair video. I then knocked out the old bearing that maytag does not want you to replace and installed new ones. While the unit was apart my wife and cleaned the drum and other parts before installing the new lip seal. I then reassembled the unit along with the new boot seal. 

I followed videos I found online--which made it easy 

Ordered boot seal from AppliancePartsPro.com and received it in a couple of days. Followed 'Repair' video on same website which was very helpful and thorough. Made replacement look easy. Did encounter same issue that others had with the stainless steel cable retainer and strong tension spring. Found that the seal slipped slipped off the lip of the plastic panel often as it needed to be stretched a bit to fit. Connecting the tension spring took two adults to complete. What was omitted in the John's excellent video was the importance of positioning the rubber seal by precisely placing the small 12 O'clock index tab on the seal directly centered at 12 O'clock on the plastic panel. Once the cable retainer and spring are joined, you can't rotate the rubber seal to correctly align the seal's rubber tabs when pushing them into their respective slots on the outer plastic front panel.