Back in action
The Norge is repainted inside and what little paint it needed on the outside is done, pictures soon. As little wear and tear as it had, the feet were next to impossible to remove, everything else pretty smooth. The big spring tensioner against the motor is a b$^#h too. I had the entire tub-tranny-suspension removed, had the baseplate down to baseplate only. I was going to remove the agitator to clean the exterior tub better, but it wants to stay on pretty darn well, and I shined strong lights thru the perforated tub, it turns out I was able to get 90% of the crud out with a rag between the tubs near the top, everything else pretty clean. In reassembly, I used a small amount of white lithium grease on the motor slides, and at all the huge suspension spring ends. If it's quieter than before, it's only a 1% decrease. I oiled the pump from it's bottom. I kept all lube and oil away from the brake and tranny, unless someone advises where to lube. The exterior base of the tub, the conical part above the tranny, had minimal dried crud, that tells me that it barely leaks grease.
Hey cfz2882----both the original and replacement motors are GE, they have illegible info stamped on the rusty/dirty side, no sticker, so I'm gonna give up and declare it a 1978 model, 50th anniversary of Norge, 34 years old.
In it's new location it now siphons to the laundry drain tub when it's full and I pause for soaking. Check valves are for the opposite direction, right? I should just redo the hose so it stands taller than the highest water level in the machine?
I'm very impressed with Norge. Burpalator lint filtering works amazingly well, that agitator and stroke are strong, spin speed seems a bit faster than most, and I don't know how the spray does as well as it does, but one rinse does the trick, they know better than I. And I like the timer. While neither the prewash/second rinse cycle nor the 30 minute soak cycle advance into wash, at least it doesn't waste timer space with cooldowns and "mini" junk. . All the speed options are available, 5 temp combo, so I really need the timer to just do standard wash time, it's great.
Also, the spray rinse is always cold, regardless of the temp settings. I'm guessing it's by design, not an error, easy to live with.
My Maytag is so quiet in comparison, and so boring. This Norge is loud and fun.
