Maytag Agitator Tub Seal Cork Gasket

[drmedicine]

I picked up a 1999 LAT9706AAE over the weekend. Looks like it wasn't used much. I tore it down to deep clean anyway. Everything looks pretty good inside, but the one odd issue is that the cork gasket from the mounting stem for some reason decided to stick to the bottom of the basket, which made it very difficult to remove. Rather than spend $100 for a new 6-2095720, I decided to try re-lining the seal as the rest of it looks solid.

I took off the mounting stem and rolled the cone on some tracing paper to find the diameter. Looks like a 7-1/2" OD circle and a 1-1/2" face, so I made a template with a 5" ID. This seems to fit the cone very well once trimmed. I got some 1/16" cork gasketing material from the hardware store and cut a new gasket with my circle cutter and attached it to the mounting stem with some red RTV silicone I had handy.

Has anyone else tried this? Anything I should have done differently?

 

[swestoyz]

Can't say I've had a need to try it, but the replacement cork looks just fine. Great idea to reuse a perfectly good stem!

Ben

 

[good-shepherd]

Thats not a gasket, its simply there to protect the porcelain.

Get a new stem and boot kit they are less than $60 on eBay,

If the old reused stem starts leaking you'll have to do the whole job all over again, (hopefully before it does serious damage if not caught in time).

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[qsd-dan]

Get a new stem and boot kit they are less than $60 on eBay,

Agree, these newer triple lip seals are good only for about 10 years. It's not worth risking water intrusion into the transmission or rusting out the agitator shaft over $60.

 

[drmedicine]

I will replace the seal, this was just a temp fix to get it in service. The appliance supply house by me wants $100 for a $60 part, I'd rather get it from eBay. I rebuild pumps regularly as part of my job and I agree that lip seals are not great compared to mechanical seals. Not the most rugged part of the DC design.