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So, the Amanatag is now 11 years old. You all have helped me fix her brake pads and an annoying click. On that last one, Budget appliance repair figured it out it was the belt and so I replaced it. Two years ago this month. Imagine my surprise today when the belt look like it got into a fight with a honey badger. Still a belt, but chunks missing all over, enough powdered rubber inside the machine to sink a ship. So I get a new belt. Install the thing, and the washer runs fine. Until it gets to spin, when it suddenly sounds suspiciously like like a dragging/rumbling noise. Almost like the balls in a bearing. Wise samurais, I humbly ask, 1)would a bearing cause the belt to go klablammo? I see no water from top bearing. I see no grease inside. 2)Do I push this off a cliff to meet it's maker? If so- what do I replace it with? top/front/rock&bucket? All the new machines sound like they don't work particularly well (funny coming from a guy who owns an Amanatag) and they also don't seem like they're DIY fixable, and it really has been kinda fun coming around here and fixing stuff. I can hear my grandfather from beyond the grave harping on me how *his* washer lasted 40 years...