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Frigidaire EGZ831AS1 Drying just started acting up. Drying currently empty, Start attempt. Will turn approximately 1/4 rotation, Can hear motor trying but stops. Try again, Unit maybe turns 1/8 to same result. Then eventually will not turn at all but I can hear motor trying. Tub (sorry for not exact terminology) has some give it in it currently on the front. Feel like it might be off balance. Not sure how I would take apart to check as I cannot find a manual for this old girl. After about 10 minutes I can try again and it starts the same scenario (only reason I did this is I needed to prove to the misses that I wasn’t being lazy it actually didn’t work :-D) Don’t want to burn out motor (anymore then it potentially is) Let me know what you guys think. Thanks Jared
Hi @ambientprotect , Did you mean FGZ831AS1? Does the drum rotate freely by hand? If not remove the drive belt and then check. It may be a faulty bearing. If it is the above model number, here’s a link to the parts diagrams that may help. Click on Symptoms > will not tumble. It shows the possible reasons for the problem. If you then click on one of them e.g. drum support bearing, there is a video that shows how to replace it. The other possible problem parts also have videos. Hopefully this is of some help.
