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The motor on our clothes dryer was doing a "self protection" thermal or overload shutdown and there was a strong odor in the tub Jim S. • Fallon , NV • November 27, 2015
It took two repair attempts to fix the dryer. At first, I noticed that the rear felt seal was completely worn out, so I thought that extra friction between the tub and the rear panel might be causing the motor to have to work too hard and overheat. I ordered a new seal from appliancepartspros.com, and installed it according to their instructional video, but it did not correct the problem. Then I decided that the motor must be going bad, so I watched the on-line video on how to remove the...
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