Tricity Bendix AW1050 Drum stuck

cork_south

Hi Washing machine experts,
The belt snapped on our Tricity Bendix AW1050.

Afterwards, we notice that we could not manually turn the drum.
We think that is why the belt snapped.

We fed a wire in through the top of the machine between the drum and its casing and removed a lot of dirt through the filter at the bottom.
We can now turn the drum 360 degrees clockwise but it is extremely stiff and if we turn it back the other way its very very stiff.

We need a new belt, but does anyone know why the drum is so stiff?
If we get a new belt, it will most likely snap again as it takes a lot of effort to manually move the drum.

Thanks for your help in advance!

galway1973

could be bearing gone or wire from a bra caught at back.
you will have to split the drum to check.
was it noisy ?
is there any sign of water on back of drum?

cork_south

Thanks Galway.

All the water is drained alright.
We might work on getting the drum opened tomorrow.
There is no noise at all, we thought it might have been a screw or something like that but because there is no noise it leads us to believe it could be a children's sock or something like that.

galway1973

was a away for weekend so only saw this now
even without a belt you should hear motor running and pump coming on.

Billy Bunting

I would remove tub to pump hose before doing anything else, sounds like a sock or somink like that stuck on the element, you can get at that with hose removed.

cork_south

Hi everyone. We can now turn the drum , I don't know what was causing it to stick but we kept turning it for hours to loosen it out and it's done the trick.

We got our replacement belt, is there any dummies guide to fitting the belt for this washing machine?

Have a look at some of these youtube videos, one of them might show the process on a machine that's a similar type to yours.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=replacing+washing+machine+belt&oq=replacing+washing+machine+belt&gs_l=youtube.3..0.2038.11829.0.12034.30.14.0.16.16.0.266.2200.2j8j4.14.0...0.0...1ac.1.fTk6hgUEOAY

edit: just look at this one..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc6NzvxhjI

Billy Bunting

cork_south wrote: »

Hi everyone. We can now turn the drum , I don't know what was causing it to stick but we kept turning it for hours to loosen it out and it's done the trick.

We got our replacement belt, is there any dummies guide to fitting the belt for this washing machine?

Simply place the belt on the motor pulley and feed the belt around the tub pulley, once tight start to turn the belt onto the pulley by turning it while feeding it on, it will stretch and pop on, make sure it is on the motor pulley sufficiantly.

The Red Ace

cork south, unless you remove the article of clothing that caused the drum to lock up in the first place it will happen again, as BB sugested remove the sump hose and see if you can see the offending article as it cannot go down to the filter because of a golf ball type float, you may also have to remove the heating element to gain access, a correctly shaped coat hanger will fish it out that is if you can locate it, unless you have good engineering skills drum removal is not a diy job and even then you have to establish if the drum can be split

cork_south

Dolan, Billy and Ace, thanks a lot for the info.
I will be taking another look at this the week after next so will let ye know how it goes.