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All cleaned out, and ready to reassemble.......

Glass balls and Lint........

Opposite side, with the glass balls removed for cleaning and the lint taken out........these are the two rubber bumpers.....

Inside of one half of the filter chamber.......

Close up of the filter.........It consists of two rubber "bumpers" and is filled with glass balls. I felt bad taking this thing apart, it was the only thing on the washer that didnt leak! Its an amazing contraption.......makes me wonder who dreamed something like this up........???

Here is the filter "split" in half........ it was totally blocked with not only rusticles but also a big glob of lint.......

More of the filter.......

Its made to be easily taken apart so I guess the original designers felt it could be serviced........

Now for a nasty job.......trying to repair the "self-cleaning" filter..... This is the chamber for the filter.....

I also siliconed ALL the possible places in the outer tub where a leak could (and did) occur.....The four screws at the bottom of the tub were also loose and needed tightening.....this the water port for the pressure switch....

The next step is to try and halt the rust from continuing.......I thought it best NOT to removed the outer tub at this point, but just to reseal the bottom donut seal with silicone and then to paint the spin shaft with POR-15

And the source of the rust? The dreaded spin shaft rust.......oh oh.......NOT a good sign........

Inner wash tub removed, it was not as bad as I thought but there were still little dams of rust in the tub.....all of which were blocking the system and the check valves when pumping out........

Removing the tub nut........

Top removed........

Flushing and draining the washer over and over didnt help as the rust was still present.......So there was no choice but to remove the inner tub and see what was going on.......

This is a view from underside of the washer....what looks like a "sump" from the bottom of the tub is actually one of the check valves. It has a rubber ball inside that "floats" up and down according to the flow of the water, either pumping in when the returning suds water, or "recirculating"...

So the disassembly started: This is a VERY complicated washer with a complex system of hoses and Check Valves, along with a suds saver diverter valve..... The rust totally plugged up the NOS pump I had put on........

The washer was "working" but NO water would pump thru the systems.......neither the drain, suds valve, waterfall recirculating filter........I could hear it trying......it turned out the system was totally plugged with "rusticles". Little bits of metal rust particles.... NOT a good sign.......

Trying to keep the washer as vintage as possible I first opted not to use this new pump. I had a NOS (new old stock) 2 port metal Kenmore FSP pump so I tried using it. When I first hooked it up and water tested it, it leaked EVERYWHERE possible.......and even in some IMPOSSIBLE places too. So...