Do-It-Yourself Story

This was not a difficult repair, thankfully someone else had posted the same problem and a new motor was in order. After I removed the drum, I spun the motor shaft by hand and sure enough it worked. This was a partially defective motor that did not have enough power to initiate operation. I ordered a new motor along with a new blower seal and lower felt seal. I did not need the felt seal, but it comes with a tube of high heat glue which I needed to replace the blower seal. It was 12.00 for the lower felt seal and glue, but if you buy the glue separately, it will set you back 25 bucks. So just go ahead and get the lower felt seal kit, along with a blower seal. BTW, if you remove the front of the dryer which you will have to do to remove the drum, to get to the motor, you will probably tear the blower seal and you need to replace it in my opinion so you dont just blow lint alll over the interior of the dryer. That will wear out parts inside faster. It isnt a bad idea to replace the lower felt seal at the same time, just do it first before you do the blower seal. Don't forget to save enough glue for the blower seal. If you're afraid you'll run out, buy two kits. you will still be in it less than the cost of one tube separately. Good videos from this site to show you how to do it. Also buy a can of "Pure Citrus" orange air freshener at Wal-mart to remove the glue from the old seals, and use some Awsome Orange or Oxy Clean or some other kind of degreaser to clean off the "solvent" (air freshener.) They recommend not using the dryer for 24 hours to let the high temp cement cure. My dryer works fine now. Blower is left hand thread, you will need to remove it from the motor shaft. It takes a 7/8ths socket.