Other observations of the washer:
The suds valve is toast. It is the older style aluminum body valve and one of the inlets has completely corroded off.
For the time being I will plumb around that and make it a non-suds machine.
The basket brake seems to be pretty much shot. I can spin the tub by hand easily and it takes about 15-20 seconds for the tub to stop spinning.
The entire motor/drive assembly seems loud, especially when agitating. I'm not sure if this is a function of the fact that it's not balanced and level right now or if there are more serious issues.
I think this set is again one of those situations where the washer saw pretty normal use for many years and is tired.
The dryer, however, probably saw less than half of the use since she most likely hung a lot of things out to dry.
My initial plan is to get the dryer vacuumed out, cosmetically spiffed up and put directly into use. I'm pretty stoked to have a WP gas dryer with TRUE soft heat and automatic dryness control to use. The 1967 Maytag HOH will have to languish in storage for a while.....
I will most likely play with the washer for a few weeks and then set it aside for moderate to major Belt-Drive Rebuild. God only knows what the spin tube, center post and center post bearings look like!
