Do-It-Yourself Story

Thought it was the bearings that had gone out, but when I took the clothes out of the washer the drum had too much up and down movement. Took the whole washer apart, which was not that difficult. As the drum slid out, the shaft connected to the spider was cracked. Hey, I see six 10mm bolts to remove it and what I thought was going easy was not. Out came the propane torch and WD 40. Spray the bolts and put a lot of heat on and out each one came easily. Big wack on the old one and out it came. The new spider went in the same way. Loctite the bolts and put the whole washer back together. Ran the spin cycle and no noise, back to normal.