This is my third in a little series of my Maytag Neptune journey. Several months ago I began looking for new components to refurbish the internal components of my now nearly 10 year old Maytag Neptune gas dryer, that started life as a model 4000 and then 4 years ago was upgraded to a model 7500 with touchscreen to match my model 7500 washer I purchased 5 years ago.
First I thought I would search out a little used model 5500. You know one of those they bought 5 years ago but they were deployed overseas and it was in storage for 3 or 4 years and now they are getting a new LG set and want to sell it off kind of scenario. Well that didnt materialize and I grew impatient to wait any longer because I wanted to make this happen this year.
SO next I started pricing all those individual components and soon the total started getting pretty ridiculous to even consider doing all of the components, and I was pretty well going to have to just forget it and just fix what breaks over time I figured.
Then one other idea hit me when I was reading about the old Neptune, how the line was continued a few more years by relabeling it an Amana! well I was soon to find out that they had even discontinued the Amana versions as well a couple years ago.
However as luck would have it I found a brand new in box left over gas dryer being sold in my state of Oklahoma and being sold by the Maytag dealer on Ebay. Soon I was at the parts locator comparing part for part and found that the internal components of the Amana were indeed the exact same parts almost down to every last piece!
The Amana was a touchpad version so I would have to swap out the wiring harness, the control panel, and control board. But since these items were relatively new to the machine this was no problem so I made plans to purchase the NIB Amana dryer at a very attractive price of 399.00!
Upon reciept of the dryer I did see that I was not going to be able just to swap the door and top as I had hoped, as there were different mounting brackets for each machine to the cabinet and the brackets were welded on to the Maytag while bolted to the Amana.
So I had to dismantle both machines completely, swap the outer shell of each machine, swap harnesses, control panel, control board and doors. However every single other component of the dryer under the shell would now be brand new in the Maytag.
This is the machine to recieve the makeover on the left..
First I thought I would search out a little used model 5500. You know one of those they bought 5 years ago but they were deployed overseas and it was in storage for 3 or 4 years and now they are getting a new LG set and want to sell it off kind of scenario. Well that didnt materialize and I grew impatient to wait any longer because I wanted to make this happen this year.
SO next I started pricing all those individual components and soon the total started getting pretty ridiculous to even consider doing all of the components, and I was pretty well going to have to just forget it and just fix what breaks over time I figured.
Then one other idea hit me when I was reading about the old Neptune, how the line was continued a few more years by relabeling it an Amana! well I was soon to find out that they had even discontinued the Amana versions as well a couple years ago.
However as luck would have it I found a brand new in box left over gas dryer being sold in my state of Oklahoma and being sold by the Maytag dealer on Ebay. Soon I was at the parts locator comparing part for part and found that the internal components of the Amana were indeed the exact same parts almost down to every last piece!
The Amana was a touchpad version so I would have to swap out the wiring harness, the control panel, and control board. But since these items were relatively new to the machine this was no problem so I made plans to purchase the NIB Amana dryer at a very attractive price of 399.00!
Upon reciept of the dryer I did see that I was not going to be able just to swap the door and top as I had hoped, as there were different mounting brackets for each machine to the cabinet and the brackets were welded on to the Maytag while bolted to the Amana.
So I had to dismantle both machines completely, swap the outer shell of each machine, swap harnesses, control panel, control board and doors. However every single other component of the dryer under the shell would now be brand new in the Maytag.
This is the machine to recieve the makeover on the left..
