I called a local appliance service which diagnosed the problem as a "broken spider" that was allowing the drum to wobble and rub on the door seal. He quoted $450 to repair it and it would have to come back to the shop. They could pick it up in a day or two and I should allow 5 days for the repair. 5+ days was not going to work for us. I went on line and found a step by step instruction on how to replace the spider and some hints on to which parts I should get. Befor I went back to work, I had to come home for the service guy, I ordered all but the door seal as there wasn't a seal leak. When I told my wife I ad not ordered the seal she insisted I get a new one as the old one was black and she was unable to get to clean. Second order placed. All of the parts were here within 2 days.
Repair took 3 to 4 hours as it is not a small job but the ApplianceParstPros video was excellent and I didn't once feel like I had a mess on my hands. The only hitch was the door gasket had an extra drain at the bottom that my unit didn't have and I missed that it wasn't plugged off like the other "extra" hose connections on the replacement gasket. Medium leak during the test was resulted in a rushed partial disassembly only to find the unplugged hole. I plugged it with the cut off end of a sharpie barrel and was back up and running. Total down time about 3 days. I rated this as medium difficult repair but I am fearless in diving into this kind of stuff.
Thanks ApplianceParstPros.