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Okie-Dokie Washaholic, here's a thread that I started myself some time back that sort-of deals with the issue: http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?57291 I tend to waffle on a bit in the thread, but am guided back to the straight and narrow by another Aussie forumite...

Hello up there Washaholic! I guess you must have run into a couple of websites that are describing the part as either obsolete or out of stock, but here's one website at least up in your part of the world that appears to still have them available...

Ahoy Washaholic, from down here in the Antipodes! Sorry to pop up so late with some input on this, but assuming that the Spin Tub arrangement on your 5090 is the same as the 1302's that I used to have (because the general layout looks almost identical, going by photos of the 5090 that I've seen...

Gosh Leon - they’re incredible for their age! Your commitment to sniffing out these forgotten but well-preserved barn-finds is massive, and the mind boggles at just how much time, distance, and dollars you generally sink into the whole pursuit. Hats off to you - You definitely walk the walk...

Hello there Adam! If you're trying to undo that earth-wire in order to change the Spin Belt, it sounds like I might have confused you by stating in Post #4 above that the bolts that need to be undone are to the "underside" of the Spin Pulley. I actually meant underside when the whole machine is...

That was FAB Leon! (pardon the pun...) They're getting better by the week! The illuminated control panel on those Simpsons is sweet sweet candy; you must have surely done a "Night Wash" with one of them in the dark sometime? Surely?... Anyway, I hope that Holy Grail does turn up for you some...

That's excellent Leon! A bit short, but still sweet nonetheless. Hopefully, the exposure will lead to some more good "Barn Finds" for you. But I reckon the next item on the Museum's wish-list should actually be some of that magnificently-out-there green wallpaper on Dame Edna's walls! It was...

Noice... but... Holy Smokes that is "Out There" for 1979!!! That is obviously some sort of "touchpad" control-panel on the right-hand side! Gosh, the Aston Martin Lagonda (the world's most advanced car back in the 1970's) must have only beat Whirlpool to bringing that particular technology to...

Hello Blokes, It’s high time I acquired some Tub Nut Spanners to suit my two top-loaders - a Simpson 705 from the late ‘80s, and a US-made GE WISR106CT5 from the late-90’s. The Simpson utilises a nut of the style that has the four little notches missing around its circumference at 90deg...

I suppose the concertina-type folds are intended to endow the GE hose with a certain amount of “shape-fixity” (for want of a better term) when it is bent, but they effectively fail to adequately do so to the degree that is necessary to reliably prevent the hose-end from jumping back out of the...

Unfortunately, the outlet-end of the GE’s hose is also unusual, in that it achieves the required curve-over into the Laundry Tub by employing sizeable concertina-type folds just in the region of the outlet end, rather than by using a greater number of smaller non-concertina’ing corrugations, of...

Good Afternoon Washer-Volk, I have a US-made GE 7.5kg Top-Loader (Model No. WISR106CT5WW) that employs a somewhat unusual type of drain-hose, in so far as the end of the hose - being slightly tapered in shape - pushes into a rubber orifice at the back of the machine, and is held in place by a...

As for the general smoothness and quietness of the 705 in operation, she runs “just like a bought one”! Much quieter than what my 175 was. Mayfan obviously greased it in all the right places, because it now purrs like a pussycat. So may I therefore conclude by offering local-luminary Mayfan69 a...

Nothing remained to do after that except to ravage the carcass of the 175 for anything that might be useful as spares for the 705. Once plundered, it took on the appearance of some hollowed-out shell of an unfortunate crustacean that had floated lifelessly down to the seabed after being attacked...

And this shot down into that glorious nearly-30yo-but-still-as-new bowl shows what all the fuss was about. Never ageing (just like the Simpsons themselves…), and brimming with stainless-steel goodness (well, just like Lisa with her braces on…)

It was thus high time for the 705 to be filled with water, and put through its first complete cycle. All went well until a serious rhythmic knocking developed during the “Spin” portion, but this proved to be due to nothing more than a slight dislocation of one of the nylon seats into which screw...

So after transplanting the good O-Ring from the 175’s pump (which had the bad output-shaft seal) into the 705’s pump (which had the good output-shaft seal), the latter pump was reinstalled into the 705, so that acceptance-trials could be recommenced. Compared to the earlier photo of the 175’s...

Here's a closer-up view of the O-Ring in question:

Well, it was not only beyond me as to how to take the impeller off the output-shaft to get at the offending seal, but I was pretty certain that the seal would be quite specialised and unobtainable as a spare part anyway. Fortunately, the shiny condition of the stator of the 705’s pump-motor...

The culprit was obviously the little rubber seal that sits around the output-shaft from the motor to the impeller. You can just make out the black-coloured seal in question in the centre of this next photo (taken from behind the impeller). The output shaft is identified here by a small dot of...