Excellent day for all this great community of hive motors, may the great creator my all powerful GOD fill you with blessings and joy every day of the rest of your lives. While waiting for my new job in the south of Bolivar state in a company of the mining arc, as I have to rejoin in these days, a neighbor asks me the favor to review and if possible correct a loud noise that presents its double tub washing machine.
Yesterday I went to the neighbor's house to check her washing machine, what I could hear was a loud noise coming from the transmission, so from my experience and the short time of use of the transmission my partial diagnosis was lack of grease in it, to be sure of my diagnosis I would have to disassemble and see why the lack of grease.
I started to disassemble the washer to remove the transmission from the bottom and removed the screws to have better access to the part to be removed. Once I had the part out, I started disassembling it and a retainer broke when I removed it, it was not a problem since I had another similar one at home and I was able to replace it. It is observed that in effect the loud noise is due to lack of lubrication in the gears. Now this happens because it begins to leak water through the upper stuffing box, no wear is observed in it and it has good flexibility which indicates that it was the internal spring (in the stuffing box) that loosened.
We enter in the final part of this corrective maintenance, the solution to the water pass through the stuffing box and add grease to the gears of the transmission. Since the gland has almost no wear and its spring is so small that if we adjust it it can be damaged, then what we will do is to put Teflon on the shaft and on the edge of the gland, so that it adjusts a little more and prevents the passage of water to the gears. Clean the rest of the transmission with soapy water.
At the end with the greasing of the part and the adjustment of the gland, I began to assemble the transmission, then the complete assembly of the washer and finally the start up of the same, in this way we verify the results of corrective maintenance. I hope this post will be useful for similar situations, a tip if you have no experience in this type of maintenance please call a trusted technician, eye not just any technician I have seen bad jobs done by unscrupulous people who deceive their customers. Also try as much as possible to be in the maintenance of their equipment if done at home.
Todas las imágenes son de mi propiedad y el traductor utilizado fue Deep traslate. Sin mas que agregar y espero les sea de su agrado me despido de toda esta bella gente hasta mi proxima publicación.
All images are my property and the translator used was Deep Translate. Without more to add and I hope you like it I say goodbye to all these beautiful people until my next publication.