Frigidaire 5303937187 Door Boot Kit OEM Part

I replaced the door boot with a new one from AppliancePartsPros.com. The most difficult part was starting at the back end of the new boot onto the stationary rim, just in front of the tub. And then anchoring it in place with the existing spring from the previous boot. To start the boot I had to hook the top edge of the boot, where the arrow tab is, onto the rectangular projection on the tub rim and then roll the rubber boot edge down around the tub rim and hope the rim was going into the lubricated groove on the back side of the boot. Since I couldn't see the groove from the front of the washer or feel if the rim was in place. This rolling process was continued all the way around the perimeter of the boot. To put on the rear spring required putting it into the groove in FRONT of the triangular tab and then clamping it at the top with a 3- inch spring clamp that had about 40 pounds of clamping pressure. I used another identical clamp at the 3 o'clock position. From that point on the job got impossible to do without prayer and severe hand/finger pain until I fashioned a spring push stick out of a 1/2 inch wooden dowel with a shallow "U" shaped groove in one end to fit the spring. This enabled me to push the spring down and under the inside edge of the boot's groove by pulling down on the spring with my left hand to get some slack in the spring then pushing the dangling spring below my left hand into place with the stick in my right hand. Another identical clamp was used at the 6 o'clock position to hold the spring in place. From that point onward the spring stretch and push method worked slightly more easily and without additional clamps being required. The stick had to be slid up the spring while maintaining pressure on it. (Since I couldn't squeeze the clamps with only one hand, I held them open with strong rubber bands and positioned them roughly into place before stretching the spring to the point where I wanted the clamp. Then I cut the rubber band with scissors to release the clamp after repositioning the clamp exactly where it needed to be).

I purchased a new door boot to replace an old one that had gotten very moldy. The replacement took me about an hour to do by myself. The hardest part was putting the spring on. I used clamps in addition to the spacers. That helped immensely! All in all, not a bad DIY repair.

Watched the vedio all went great pulling apart and prep wok started to have problem with the spring attaching to the inside stationary drum Sweating it out!!! decide to use a pc. of wood 1/2"x3/8"x 18 long put a "V" notch along the 1/2" side and use as a third hand unmoving the spring around one half of the drum Verified that it was installed correctly tested it out two separate cycles NO LEAKS Thank you for your service arnold elgort

Identified where the leak was originating. Decided that replacing the seal/boot was the appropriate response. Removed the existing seal, then followed the supplied directions. Was a lot easier for a couple of the steps to have a second set of hands. Getting the boot onto the tub, I think this is what it is called was kinda challenging, adding hand soap helped. Though when done I suggest wiping away any soap you can reach, since it impeded getting the spring on after.

Replaced the boot. when I looked at the new seal it was different than the original seal. But I soon figured out that it would work. Do yourself a favor and use the liquid soap to get the seal inserted to the inner side (first step on install). The only problem I faced was the spacers provided kept falling out when trying to install the spring. After the third try I put one spacer at 12:00 and had my wife hold it there while I used my hands to hold the rest as I worked the spring around. Worked like a charm. Not sure how I would have done it without the third hand. The spacers are not enough to hold back the tension created while installing the spring. Other than that the repair went well and took about 45 minutes. The only tools I used were a screw gun to remove the door (recommended) and needle nose pliers to remove/install the water fill tube spring. The instructions say to make your own out of copper wire but I just re-used the original one,