link and cleaning
The link works if you are logged in to Facebook, but here are the pics from that Marketplace Facebook app.
And Christie, here's a link of a MAJOR rebuild on a DE808.
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?33488
Unplug your machine.
Reply 3 shows the front removed, check out the metal strap about 3 inches up from the floor, on each front edge of the drier. A Screw from the front side of the cabinet front goes up inside those straps at an angle. Now you know about how far down the cabinet to look for the screws with the front on.
Reply 19 shows the front, look way near the bottom, at that crimp in the front. You can almost see 2 screwholes right into the crimp. Unscrew them, then the front sort of swings out, sort of hinged where it meets the top of the dryer, and the top clips will just pop out once it's swung open far enough.
Depending on how handy you are or aren't, ask questions and please feel free to take pics and hit up this site while you are working on the machine (answers may come within 24 hours, it ain't always immediate).
You can see way down the right side of the machine for lint, and reply 3 and 15 are front shots of the dryer with and without the lintscreen/blower wheel cover in place, it comes off with a few small sheet metal screw, very evident.
If that's tooo much dis-assembly for you, at least look at those pics and see the thermostats and all that wiring way down near the base of the blower housing, and especially reply 16. You do NOT have to remove wires, you can simply unscrew each thermostat, one at a time, and get out lint and use some rubbing alcohol to clean the flat front surface of the thermostat until it shines. Re-install with the 2 screws, then do the next one. You do NOT have to be an electrician, just leave the wires on and clean one at a time, reinstall it before the next one.
Many thanks to beekeyknee for his detailed rebuild, sorry to steal all his work!
Reply 32 is a pic from inside the cabinet, out the back of it, with the back removed. At least it gives you an idea of how the exhaust pipe runs, and you can reach in from the back and clean as deeply as possible.
Reply 50 shows access to the motor, try de-linting and vacuuming as much as possible. Further dis-assembly and oiling the motor bearings is really a full-fledged teardown.
Hmm, it seems my main advice is to read all of Beekeyknee's doings, and look at all pics, and do as much as you feel safe with, taught by him, not me.
Thank you beekeyknee!
Christie, keep us posted, ask questions and be patient for answers. If you're moving into a new place, you know you'll have 82 chores going at once, this will be only one, and it won't be done in just an hour. But you'll be pleased with the results of your good work.
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