There are people who are just gifted on knowing how to explain things in simplest forms. I watched over 8 other videos and this one by far was the simplest to understand and remember while I am doing mine. Thank you sir.
Great video. I didn’t have the mini hooks so I simply took two finishing nails and clamped them in two vice grips and I bent the finishing nails to a right angle at the tips. Worked perfectly and the agitator popped right out. There was grime on the mounting area of the agitator as well as the agitator cap. My washer must be a bit larger because there was I believe a dozen nuts holding the drum down. I could not loosen the nuts with a socket and ratchet nor my cordless drill. It was difficult because the drum would keep spinning while you’re trying to turn the nut. I could’ve got my impact wrench from the garage that I use with my compressor but my wife and I decided the cleaning was good and if we have an issue with odor next time we’ll do a complete disassembly. For others doing the job the first thing that I did was remove the sump pump from underneath the washer and clean in the sink as well as scrub out the drain hose to the sump and from the sump to the wall drain. The flex hoses were very stinky, but not too grimy. When we do a deep clean like Howard did, I’ll have my wife video me using Howard’s technique.
Exactly! I got the top piece off, and I can’t figure out how to get the next part off because it’s already off! My sheets are stuck under the dang thing
You just totally demystified this intimidating washer!!! I think the smart drum thing scares a lot of people, but this is actually easier to take apart than the older washers. Excellent video! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for your video. My LG washer is only 2-3 yrs old and we started to have pieces of calcium and brown deposit on our clothes. Disgusting. Your video helped find out how to remove the top part and then, the rest is quite easy. I had 12 bolts to remove the drum (vs 6 on your end). Now it's all fine. Under the drum there is a big iron piece where calcium was building up. I will now on use CLR regularly to keep this thing clean. Thanks!
We have the same problem. Did doing this whole cleaning actually make the brown flakes go away? I am thinking of trying this...because our 30+ tub clean cycles with all the various tricks haven't done the job
@@AngelaVetch-yb5fn yes! Doing a complete disassembly and clean will make the brown flakes go away. I've done it on multiple machines for friends and family. The supermarket tub clean sachets didn't fix the problem, but a proper deep clean with the tub disassembled did the trick!
@@s_rofbearoh no exactly what I didn't want to hear 😅 well at least I know now! I swear my whirlpool top loader with an agitator never had this issue for 15 years but this LG....
I had to get one of my wife's earrings out from under the metal portion of the tub as it was in there grinding things up, this video turned out to be very helpful. Thanks!
This video was very helpful!!! Thank you Howard!!! A few things I figured out as I was following this excellent tutorial: 1: I was able to get the drum out by using paracord wrapped around three screws which I placed in a triangle around the wash plate close to the middle bolt. I put tension on the cord which was in a triangular pattern as I hit the center bolt with a heavy hammer ( do not hit it like you are driving a nail). It released after a few good hits. 2: after the wash plate come out, I noticed the same nasty grim vinegar
Thank you SO very much - your video was very helpful even though my LG model was a little different. I’ve only had mine for 4 years and despite cleaning it with vinegar or bleach or Affresh tabs the outside of my drum was disgusting. A little elbow grease and a scrub brush and Method degreaser in pink grapefruit and the washer is clean again. It took me 1/2 an afternoon (stubborn bolts on the bottom!) but it was worth it. No more stinky washer.
So much more to cleaning this beast. You arr spot on how to disassemble it. The gray Ring around the tub is filled with chode water that needs to come out. The agitation plate is a 2 piece item that has stainless steel pressed over the plastic carrier that ypu will never be able to clean but holds nasty crap between it. The steel wheel at the bottom of the hold tank is nasty and shit grows on it. If you can remove it you are a Rockstar. If not get out the razor blade and a wire brush and you still won't get it 100% clean. I took the steel tub out and pressure washed it and it's like new. Put it all back together put about a gallon of LAs Totally Awesome cleaner in the washer let it sit for 24 hours and then do the tank clean and it smells better. You will still get some floaters as stuff breaks loose. Good luck all. It's a shitty design for trapping crap you can't clean
This is so true. I just went through this process. It's relatively easy to disassemble and clean the drum (inside and out) as the video shows but that agitator disc is the REAL problem. As Jason mentioned, the stainless steel you see when you look down in your washer is stamp-pressed around a large plastic disc. Good luck separating but even more good luck ever putting it back together. I kept sending a fairly high pressure, directed stream of water onto the gunky plastic part thinking I got it completely clean and then after 20 minutes or so of this, noticed that flakes still kept floating out from the inside. It gets trapped between the plastic and stainless steel. I am now online looking to see how much the replacement agitator piece will cost because otherwise, this just isn't going to 100% solve your problem. I never use fabric softener (which causes this when mixed with your detergent) but I "inherited" this garbage design from the previous owner when I bought the house. I will never, EVER buy a top loader since it sounds like this happens to all of them.
Thank you Howard...great videos (this one AND your more detailed one...although you explained it well enough here that I didn't really need the more detailed one). You saved me HOURS of frustration and bloody knuckles...
GREAT VIDEO with FANTASTIC INSTRUCTIONS! You are Da MAN! You have just solved the mystery on how to open this machine. Our machine has a lot of flakes and debris, no matter how many times I run the TUB CLEAN cycle. It does very little to alleviate this problem. I was thinking that the water pump was clogged and backing up instead of draining. I'm going to follow your instructions and hopefully this will stop the problem after I have it all cleaned. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
After all the trouble of taking this machine apart, and after all the cleaning, when I was putting it all back together,, there were some stripped bolts. I put this LG washer out by the curb and REPLACED it with a new GE washer with the agitator. GOODBYE LG.
@@anthonymolero113 good call. LG wash plate stays dirty deep inside between metal and plastic layers no matter how much cleaning is being done to it. I wonder if GE has a better-designed wash plate.
Keep in mind. When you go to take the top off, be mindful of the inlines. I was wrestling with mine for a bit and almost cut through a line by smashing it against a raw edge of metal that holds the top to the bottom. Just a heads up from experience.
Excellent video! We had a pen stuck down by the heating element under the tub. We could not find a manual online to figure out how to access the tub - so thanks much for the information!
This was the perfect video been searching a long time! Thank you for this. And thanks for the warning about the sharp edge, I'll still probably cut myself.
I really wish that you had shown how to actually remove that main top cover to access the drum. That's a critical part that you didn't show. Unfortnuately I can't get started with anything else until I can somehow get that cover up like you have at the very start of the video.
watch till the end, he shows what 2 bolts to screw off. It is exactly as he says in the video: unscrew those 2 bolts, then lift app and push forward the panel about 1/2 inch, then the top can come off.
I took my washer apart and scrubbed all of the “scrud” out of it. I can hear water sloshing around inside the drum after I took it out but couldn’t figure out how to drain it. After everything looked squeaky clean I reassembled the washer and ran an empty cycle. When complete, I still found flakes/residue inside the drum. I have no idea where it’s coming from, unless it’s coming from inside the drum itself.
I think it's coming from the wash plate. It is really really hard to get all of the dirt from under the metal layer that's stuck between it and the plastic. I bleached it and rinsed it from all angels and can still see dirt there when looking against the sunlight. I think water in the drum might be there for balance.
Great video. It helped me a lot. I was able to disassemble the washer and put it back together just fine. Everything works perfect and most importantly it’s clean. Thanks man.
If its the middle one. We use 10mm but.. we used several 10s untill founf one that worked. We thought it was stripped or something untill one just happened to work
OK, for those looking about the top cover removal, I was able to find this other video that looks like it shows the removal of the top main cover. Link here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a544XXIk6V4.html
Thank you so much for this, I have used every cleaner I found but the smell just does not go away. I am however having a hard time with the center bolt and none of the tools I have use are doing the job, I do not want to ruin the bolt to I will wait to see if anyone has suggestions. Thank you again for this great video and even the cut warning...
Mine was a 10mm socket. Use a 3/8" socket and a ratchet with a longer handle for leverage, and make sure to turn counterclockwise. You can add WD-40 as a pseudo lubricant.
I think the reason this "scrud" accumulates is the exit point of the hose is higher than the bottom of the tub... so, trapped water not fully discharged is allowed to sit. My thinking is -you lower that exit point -so it's about the height of the pump -an inch or two above the floor, and then the sitting water will sit in the lowest loop of the hose, like a P-trap. I just cut a bit of the steel body with some tin snips so I could drop the hose down. Also, the design of the agitator is SO stupid -allowing scrud to collect between the stainless top plate and the plastic plate it's pressed to. After carefully bending the circumference of the steel plate away from the plastic, I separated the two -cleaned the plastic part well, and just installed the plastic part by itself without the steel plate. The plastic seems tough enough to endure the abrasion of zippers and rivets, etc. Since the little "hub cap" won't go back on the plastic, I just cut a piece of polycarbonate (plexi-glass) and screwed it onto the plastic with a rubber gasket in between. Just about to run a test wash, but I think these fixes will help eliminate future issues. (still shaking my head at the terrible design.)
The 1 and only reason you have this build up in your washer is because you use liquid soap and it is not soluble in anything but hot water. Had you used powdered soap you wouldn't have this as an issue.
Powdered soap never washes out of my clothes. When I go to transfer them to the dryer, there is still powder all over my clothes. What good does that do?@@donholzer898
Should I expect the center bolt under the cap to be really really hard to turn the 1st time. I tried to remove, but it was turning slow and I was concerned that I would break it. I was turning counter clockwise (to the left).
Oh My Gosh !!! How would a tiny person perform this task ? So if we get an LG Top Load Washer with an impellor, we get some kind of weird build up ... so we have to take it apart and clean it every 2 to 3 years? I was ready to buy an LG Toploader tomorrow ...this is really concerning me... if it is a washer . that cleans my clothes...what is this build up that needs to be removed from the washer ?
Just cleaner ours due to the "scrud" flaking off and finding it on clean clothes. It wasn't hard, and the drum doesn't weight that much. We didn't run a clean cycle on it as frequently as we should and this is what you get from it. Overall, it cleans clothes but you have to maintain it.
Did you take the inner drum apart? There is apparently two walls of the chrome drum and stuff can build up between them. What be not tried to take that apart yet but I’m thinking about it.
Hello, why did you clean it? What problem was there? I have a similar LG Washer and have small dirt particles that just stay in the washer and don't flush away. Did you have a similar problem? And thanks for the tutorial, so helpful.
Thanks so much for your video, I would never have gotten the top off without your description of the process. How did you know to remove the screws in the back and slide the top forward? I couldn't find any description of this on LG's website. Thanks again!
Let me get this straight… ao i just watched a video ab temoving wverything from the bottom and now thats useless because i have to remove the entire drum!? Greeeaat!
Have the same washer and the agitator came loose during a wash cycle like floated up. Do you know where you could find some replacement parts for this? Repair guy wants 140 bucks just to arrive and diag. it... seems pretty pricey cause who knows what they might want to repair afterwards so was trying to see some info. This video was super helpful as its the same washer.
I actually bought one from LG directly, as a backup in case I broke the original during this project. It's about $140. You can find it directly from their website. I didn't need it and ended up returning it.
@@howdumb7 HOW DUMB" CAN SOMEONE BE DOEST BEGIN A VIDEO FROM THE VERY START SHOWING STEP" BY STEP IF UR GOING TO DO A VIDEO FKN START FROM THE START TAKING OF EACH FKN BOLT AND NOT JUST POINTING OUT WHAT YOU DID A BIG THUMBS DOWN BUDDY. IM A W/M TEACH AND WOULD NOT DO A VIDEO LIKE THIS AS YOU HAVE. SMH.
my machine is almost identical. I said almost. It took a couple of hours and various tools to remove the agitator, The thing was seized in place pretty solid. Ten I started removing the nuts at the bottom of the drum. Do not do that . The nuts are on upside down bolts that fall in the bottom of the machine, they are not magnetic. So I had it. Time for a new machine. not worth the frustration.
No filter? I’ve had my washer for just over a year, and it quit draining last night. I was hoping it was a clogged filter, but now I’m worried it might be my pump. Of course, I can’t find the right pump anywhere.
So I finally caved and called my home insurance company because I couldn’t get the agitator out, the guy came, he said it’s the same problem I thought, you discussed… but it is actually more expensive for my home owner insurance company to pay him to take it apart and clean it than it is for my insurance company to buy me a new one! Can you believe that crap!!!!
But will the white plastic piece underneath the center middle piece of the drum come off b/c I can see shadows of black stuff that looks like it is in between the bottom of the metal part and the plastic part.
Omg I am in the same dilemma as you! I could see the shadows of it. I took my waterpik (I don’t use it anymore) and managed to break some of it loose with the pressure from that but there is still a ton in there!
I had the same issue and really worked to get the thing off. What I found was to use the picks Howard suggested but instead of trying to muscle it off use a firm, gentle rocking motion and it will slowly loosen and come off.
I'm in that same situation right now of trying to get the adgitator plate off. I tried running a cleaning cycle since it uses hot water, didn't work. I'm not trying to run a soak cycle and pray that will loosen it up. If not, I don't know what I'll try next.
I had the same issue and really worked to get the thing off. What I found to was using the picks Howard suggested but instead of trying to muscle it off use a firm, gentle rocking motion and it will slowly loosen and come off.
Wish you would’ve actually shown the work instead of just talking and waving the camera and your hands around already assembled or disassembled pieces. Not what I was looking for.
I started watching this.... And then stopped because you should have filmed what needed to be done to remove the screws etc etc instead of just explaining it. Kind of defeats the purpose of the video if you don't show how you did it in the first place!
Id rather buy a new washer than to HAVE to go thru this. For one everytime something is disassembled and reassmbled it goes back together never exact so each time it wears out things get lost - so next thing u know - ur washers junk. Wish the pos used company i bought this from had cleaned it like they claimed too our washer has stunk since we got it and since taking out the topper on the middle of the center “agitator” spot i can see how disgusting it is! Yeah overwhelmed already its honestly too much work for someone whose not getting paid 😂 uugh its this the point in having a washing machine!? Might as well wash clothes in the tub oh but then u gott remove ur house pipes and clean them 😂 uugh
Removing the agitator you said was really easy… I have the pick and hooks and that didn’t work at all!!!! (Mine has screws on top btw) 🤬 You make it seem so easy but it’s NOT, especially doing by yourself!
how the fk there nooo screwsssss?? see them plastic triangles it has holes for screws there is 8 all together, my machine is the very same as this one , I took out 8 screws, also that tool set BS is fkn useless I tried many times and it would just flex and spring back out,. so total BS this video. i used corse 2 screws one on each side of the pulsator screwed the 2 screws to left and right side that used pliers each side to jerk out the pulsator.
