Customer Questions and Answers for Motor-Drive by Whirlpool

The Motor Drive is an OEM part for Whirlpool electric dryers. Located behind the drum, the motor drive contains the electric motor that powers the tumbling and spinning actions of the dryer drum during each cycle. It precisely controls the amount of torque needed to adequately dry wet loads within the preset time parameters.

Symptoms of a bad motor drive include:

• The dryer drum fails to spin or rotates slowly 
• Abnormal noises coming from the back of the dryer
• The dryer takes an extremely long time to finish cycles
• Bulging, cracked, or worn belts around the motor pulley

While heavy loads and continuous usage will eventually wear down motor drives, other causes could be shocks that damage internal mechanisms or failures in motor regulation components over multiple years of heating and cooling. Replacing the drive with a new OEM part restores dependable drying performance. This replacement is also suitable for models from Maytag, Jenn-Air, Amana, Roper, and more.