GREAT IDEA! But the newer fan/blowers have a huge hard plastic square for a crescent wrench to fit and all it did was break this hard plastic into pieces. That fan was seized on solid. Only way to get the motor out of the sheet metal was to drill holes in the plastic fan around the shaft at the end to let it loose. Added $13 to the cost for a new fan blower. Decided to get a new dryer afterwards. Will use it as a spare until the new one decides takes a dump.
Hey, just gonna try my luck with an odd question... today a bird made it through the dryer hose then got stuck and died in the dryer fan. I was there and it died instantly and I turned my dryer off within seconds of hearing it seize up. I took it apart, except for the fan--I was able to use a screw driver to push it back to where the fan blows through and remove the bird. So nothing mechanical was disassembled--just front exterior pieces, the aluminum tube that connects the flexible hose to the the fan and the covering of the fan. Ran it for 20 minutes with nothing and it sounded good. Ran it with a small blanket and there was a small noise every so often (somewhere in the rotation because it was consistent) and then ran a larger blanket afterwards and it made a loud whining noise--also consistently intermittent. Does this sound like the bird causing the fan to seize up had an impact on the belt or do you have any other ideas? It's a 12 year old Samsung so I'm thinking of replacing then repairing if it sounds expensive. Thanks and good video!!!
@@tubejim101 - the fan is in the front--thanks for such a quick response... also, my father and I tried to take the fan off but we couldn't get any tension behind it. I'll give it a shot to tighten it--thanks!
