Salty, I still have some hair showing, not shaving head yet, like you. I tried golf a long time ago, took a lot of divots, 'fraid I'd do the same with a razor
Back to Grumpage...... went to my favorite appliance parts place over in Harwich, people I'd dealt with before weren't in, nice young gal with a schematic of my machine on the PC, can't buy a pump, only pieces, and have to specify each one ya need, plus it would take 10 business days to ship....... OK, back to the bench..... take pump apart, housing fine/ impellor fine/ gasket fine/ no crap in unit/----> vbelt pully tight and draggin on housing, ???? can't get the thing off, no how, no way.... some kind of serated gadget slipping out from under pully rammed up tight to housing... Drive the thing back up into/underneath pully, away from housing, in there tight.
Spins nice and free now, no noise------>
Put impellor, gasket, and plastic housing back together, still spins free, no drag, or rubbing, you could see where that serated thing was chewing into the metal half of the housing...... assemble machine, still not sure I did it OK, put belt on, hook up, everything seems OK..... on second wash load now, since reassembly, Wife says the thing never ran so quiet
WTF?
Any applience guys know what I did... right, meybe?
Good news is the appraiser checked out my truck, the body shop called, had an opening, it's there getting fixed NOW!
Better part of 2 days off over this washer thing, at least no money out of pocket.... hope what I did was right..........