Do-It-Yourself Story

Ordered a new outer tub, spanner wrench, new hub nut, split ring and tub seal. Disassembled the washer and reassembled. I used the directions in the machine's manual as well as the YouTube videos posted by appliancepartspros. This is difficult to accomplish with a spanner wrench for the hub nut. Years of mineral deposits made it hard to turn. Also, it's an aluminum nut, so if you crank on it with a pipe wrench or something not made for this nut, you'll likely wear the corners off the nut. Also, best go ahead and order the split ring because it's probably going to break when you take it off (mine did and it added two days plus rush shipping charges to my job waiting on additional parts). Get a new seal, too, just so it's not a worry down the road. My old seal was warped and spongy.