Do-It-Yourself Story

After researching the issue on YouTube. I assumed that I had a bad bearing and found the disassembly videos on this website. I'm not the handiest person in the world but the video gave fairly clear instructions and I was able to get my machine completely taken apart in about 4 hours. Once I got the inner drum separated from the outer shell I found that my problem was NOT the bearings but the spider arm. Mine had corroded and cracked on 2 of the 3 arms. I tried to remove the spider arm from the stainless steel drum, but the bolts wouldn't come out. So I had to order the entire assembly. My door boot seal was dirty and moldy so I figured I'd replace it while the machine was apart. The parts arrived in 2 days and I followed the video to reassemble the machine. The only problem I ran into was installing the inner part of the door boot seal. It wasn't clear from the video what part of the seal was being tucked where so I did what I THOUGHT was right and had the seal come off when I tested the machine. This caused a minor flood but once I got the seal installed correctly the machine washes like new!!