1964 Frigidaire Custom Deluxe washer

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Brake clips .....

The brake clips are made of spring steel .... a higher carbon steel and heat treated. One thing I did on every brake rebuild, I bent used clips closed so that the open ends just touched. Then heated them up with a torch to glowing orange hot and dropped them in 30 wt motor oil to quench. I did this to rejuvenate them and renew the temper if for some reason the steel had weakened over time or use. A lot of these springs I had to renew since plenty of them were found bent because of rusted brakes .... and I didn't have the luxury of obtaining nos clips. To date the renewed clips are still going strong and hold the tub tight during agitation.

Bud - Atlanta

 

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Upper housing lip seal .....

This seal comes glued in place by GM. The old ones are tough to remove and after removal you can see the glue they used. I had a new one to fail. I always glued the new ones in, but the first one popped out while the rebuilt washer was in use. Since that failure, I now take a small blunt punch and peen over the top edge in 5 places evenly spaced apart to hold the lip seal in place and prevent it from ever popping out of the recess. Just a bit of extra prevention and the other 4 I did the way have stayed put. You probably could omit the glue and simply peen the edge and get the same result.

Bud - Atlanta