How do you add silicone to the brakes on a SQ washer?

[mtn1584]

My AWN542 started making a squealing noise again during agitation. I am pretty sure it is nothing more than the two 'washer bolts' underneath the machine rubbing against each other, but I would also like to add silicone to the brakes as well if loosening these bolts, and putting silicone between them does not work.
Mike

 

[mtn1584]

The noise is coming from......................

the metal washers stacked on top of one another between the transmission and the pulley!
Mike

 

[mtn1584]

Got it figured out.............

Spoke to Alliance today, and they explained how to loosen the wheel above the brakes and to add grease to the nut, hopefully this will stop that dam annoying noise, and not it's not a little noise, but a loud one, and only during agitaion.
Mike

 

[mrb627]

Pix

Please take some detailed pix of the repair. I'm interested in seeing it.

Malcolm

 

[mtn1584]

Malcolm

to be honest, I could not loosen the lower bolt, but I did spray the two metal nuts in question with WD4O silicone as per the SQ rep., and the squealing is gone, the brakes are working, the tub is not indexing. Conditions in my basement are horrible to say the least. My washer is very close to an un-insulated outside door, and this noise started when we had zero degree weather this past winter. The Alliance tech said these conditions could definitely case these two bolts, metal on metal to squeal...add a heavy load, and voila, you've got your irritating loud squeal. I know it is not the brakes because like I said, they are holding. I got this image below from another member who had the same problem. the effed up part is that I had the belt and drive pulley changed in Feb for a cost of 189 dollars when this was all the machine needed! SQ recommends adding a plastic washer between the two metal ones to alleviate the noise, but I am NOT taking the machine apart!
MIKE