VMW Bravos bearing job

[cfz2882]

was given a ~2012 bravos today-it mostly works,but bearings are shot-wondering if a bearing repair on one of these requires any new parts other than seal and bearings?-it's a cool looking machine with a window lid and silver in color Might junk it for spare parts if bearing job expensive...

 

[yogitunes]

is yours an 'X' belt drive, or an 'XL' direct drive.....there are a few little differences in disassembly...

bearings and seals alone not too bad.....

its when you purchase the whole outter tub with bearings and seals installed that can be major costly...



I did it with tools I already had....

 

[cfz2882]

belt

it's the belt drive version-I was really hoping I had scored the F&P drive version with recirc pump-have found some of those at the dump,but they have always been bent up-did salvage a few of the F&P style motors though.Thanks for those links-I'll get it apart for evaluation soon

 

[yogitunes]

if its a belt drive.....your most likely have to go through these sort of steps...at least of tearing it apart....

 

[combo52]

Bad Bearings On A WP VMW Washer

Replacing the bearings on the BD models is much easier, BUT much more costly, you basically have to replace the complete transmission-shaft-and seal assembly, we have only done this a few times as the repair costs about 2/3 of the price of a new washer

 

John L.

 

[cfz2882]

bit the dust...

transmission shaft was damaged along with some other parts,so junked the machine-saving a large stash of spare parts-including lid switch/lock used to repair a VMW centennial The bravos was made around 4th quarter of 2010.

 

[lorainfurniture]

Sell the board on eBay.

I don’t mind getting those in anymore, I recover my cost of the machine at minimum selling the board.

 

[cfz2882]

bad boards-bad capacitors...

When I got my 2010 cabrio,it was a faulty board that had it out of commission-board problem was caused by bad capacitors on the"assembled in China"control board-replaced the junk capacitors with quality ones and cabrio was back in operation Cabrio was an early one-built around 1st Q 2010.When I take the board out of the Bravos(I kept the whole top)i'll look it over for junk capacitors even though that machine was basicly working