ok guys, need to pick your brains please! i'm aquiring a nice little collection of rollermatics here, have 6 total now, all in various conditions, including the one i dropped off the truck and smashed to bits!
the part i am having trouble finding is the spin shaft seal, or water seal as i call it. have plenty of bellows now, even found a couple oil bellows should i need them. but this spin shaft seal is very elusive.
my question. i bought a spin shaft seal off the web for a rollermatic and it is part no. 5439025. the guy only had one and it did not come with the bronze mating surface although dave from dave's repair (who has been very helpful) said that the bronze peice seldom wears out, it is the carbon faced seal that goes, makes sense to me!
in my repair master book for frigidaire unimatics and multimatics it lists the same seal, no 5439025 and says it fits the 57-58 pulsamatic and 59 multi speed mechanism.
so does this 5439025 spin shaft seal fit all models, pulsamatic, multimatic, and rollermatic?
and does anyone know where some may be located? and could i possibly pick up a stock water seal from a seal co. that would fit?
i was told that 3 of the machines i got do leak during spin, but not wash, so i would guess the leaks are coming from the seal, not the water and oil bellows.
also, while i'm on it here if i were to install several more drains in the outer tub of a rollermatic so the water drained very quickly and would never rise to the height where it meets the seal during spin do you think this would keep a bad seal from leaking?
the nice thing about a rollermatic with it's solid tub is that the water only surrounds the spin shaft seal when the outer tub is initially holding a good quantity of water when it first starts it's spin. i would think the sooner that water is out of that outer tub the better!
that's it, as always any ideas and facts and opinions will be appreciated.
the part i am having trouble finding is the spin shaft seal, or water seal as i call it. have plenty of bellows now, even found a couple oil bellows should i need them. but this spin shaft seal is very elusive.
my question. i bought a spin shaft seal off the web for a rollermatic and it is part no. 5439025. the guy only had one and it did not come with the bronze mating surface although dave from dave's repair (who has been very helpful) said that the bronze peice seldom wears out, it is the carbon faced seal that goes, makes sense to me!
in my repair master book for frigidaire unimatics and multimatics it lists the same seal, no 5439025 and says it fits the 57-58 pulsamatic and 59 multi speed mechanism.
so does this 5439025 spin shaft seal fit all models, pulsamatic, multimatic, and rollermatic?
and does anyone know where some may be located? and could i possibly pick up a stock water seal from a seal co. that would fit?
i was told that 3 of the machines i got do leak during spin, but not wash, so i would guess the leaks are coming from the seal, not the water and oil bellows.
also, while i'm on it here if i were to install several more drains in the outer tub of a rollermatic so the water drained very quickly and would never rise to the height where it meets the seal during spin do you think this would keep a bad seal from leaking?
the nice thing about a rollermatic with it's solid tub is that the water only surrounds the spin shaft seal when the outer tub is initially holding a good quantity of water when it first starts it's spin. i would think the sooner that water is out of that outer tub the better!
that's it, as always any ideas and facts and opinions will be appreciated.
