Basket drive nut removal

[bazzybtec]

Hi everyone

I have been trying to remove the basket drive nut on my whirlpool malleys washer. i have got the special tool that is designed to remove it however when i try to remove it it wont move at all. i have tried with considerable force with no success. I have tried putting WD40 down the center to make it loose however this was unsuccessful too. Does anyone know a way this can be removed? is there a procedure to remove it?

 

[turquoisedude]

I'd say heat the nut with a torch - I've done that on just about the North American Whirlpool-built washers I've worked on (only the 65 Lady Kenmore didn't need a heat treatment).  Heat the nut with a blowtorch and then try tapping with the wrench.  It should give after that!  

A shot from my archives recalling the restoration of my 1966 Inglis Sterling washer.  

 

[bradfordwhite]

Be careful as some of these have reversed threads and unscrew the opposite of what we normally expect.
Especially true of the compact belt drive models.

 

[combo52]

Left Hand Threads

ONLY the compact BD washers ever had the LH basked nuts.

 

John L.

 

[maytag85]

This is what I’d try doing. The tub nut was never removed on my ‘63 Whirlpool so I thought it would take quite a bit of effort to remove. I messaged Paul and asked him what would work, he said rock the tub back and forth and use one of your feet to hold the tub while hitting the spanner wrench with a mallet and sure enough it worked. This is a photo in the archives of John Lefever rebuilding a 1956 RCA Whirlpool Imperial washer that Paul Chaks/turquoisedude now owns.

 

[bazzybtec]

Thanks
Heat and violence and a bit of cursing for extra measure got it free.