The Mechanical Restoration of the Youngstown Dishwasher

[tomturbomatic]

Temperature drop was another reason for rinsing the dishes in very warm water before stacking them in the dishwasher in days of yore.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Well obviously a towel can't be a solution to the leaking pump shaft seal forever, so now that I had a few fun washes in the Youngstown I took apart the pump again. Its a very bad sealing system, they simply compress a bronze washer against a bronze sleeve bearing. When I pressed out the bearing there was even water between the pump base and bearing tube, oy.

The bearing is worn, so tomorrow I'm going to take this bronze sleeve bearing (or bushing) down to my local bearing retailer and see if they can match it up with a new one. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that its a standard bearing.

Here are the parts of the pump...

 

[Unimatic1140]

Check out the size of this impeller shown next to a mix-master for size comparison, its meant to move a lot of water and the motor turns it at 3450rpm!

 

[kenmore1978]

impeller

Wow, that impeller looks like it could move the Queen Mary!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Well at Gopher Bearing yesterday I found the EXACT replacement sleeve bearing for the Youngstown's pump body. I installed the new bearing in the pump housing and it makes the dishwasher a bit quieter as the old bearing was worn down a bit. But unfortunately I still have a very slow Drip.....Drip.....Drip (one drip every five minutes) from the pump shaft. So down goes a towel until I can locate a good substitute for the pump seal. Back to the old drawing board.

 

[kenmore1978]

pump seal

I was trying to imagine how they got a good seal out of all metal parts, with no O rings or such.

 

[veg-o-matic]

I can't get beyond a business called "Gopher Bearing"!

Am I the only one who finds that hilarious?

veg

 

[duetboy]

Gopher

I used to be Dad's Gopher. Go for this, Go For that!

duetboy

aka jeff

 

[roto204]

LOL!!

"What was the solution to the leaking pump seal?"

"A towel."

ROTFLMAO