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WHIRLPOOL DRYER
January 7, 2017 at 9:21amThought it might be kind of fun for you to see what a dryer looks like disassembled. We were contacted by a regular customer in Castle gate in San Tan Valley, their dryer sounded like a dragster going down a ¼ mile stretch of road. Let me put it this way, it was hard to avoid the noise and let it go. Loud noises in dryers whether a GE dryer, a Maytag dryer or a Whirlpool dryer almost always are caused by an internal component. A Dryer roller support, a dryer idler pulley, a dryer bearing, any of these items will get very loud very quick when they are starting to fail. On this particular unit the dryer rollers, dryer idler pulley and...

MAYTAG REFRIGERATOR DEFROST
January 3, 2017 at 11:21amSo we got a call about a Maytag refrigerator not cooling down properly on the refrigerator side only, the freezer was doing fine. The call was in Copper Basin right down the street from us so we popped in pretty quickly to see what might be the problem. When we arrived we found a ton of frost build up on the inside of the back panel in the freezer. When this happens it means something within the defrost system has failed. In these situations we have to teardown the inside of the freezer compartment to access the components like the defrost heater and defrost bi-metal. In this case the culprit was the adaptive defrost control board, normally...