Do-It-Yourself Story

Ordered main shaft, bearing, and seal without actually taking the whole thing apart. Boy, I'm glad I did. The outer tub seal was completely corroded and falling apart. When replacing the main shaft I pretty much had to take the whole thing apart. The hardest part, by far, was getting the tub-nut off. I didn't have a spanner wrench but did have a pretty good set of channel locks and other wrenches. The issue wasn't so much getting a grip that I could hammer, it was just that the nut was really frozen on there. I ended up using penetrating oil, heating it with a torch, and then ended up putting one channel lock on the nut and another channel lock vertically on the handle of the first one to hold it really tight. The second channel lock on the handle actually made a nice place to strike with the hammer. Once that was done everything came apart easily and went back together nicely. Great having the videos from appliance parts pros to refer to.