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I have a Neptune MAH4000 washing machine. It has been a pretty good machine over the last 16 years. It had the wax motor problem and the fried resistor on the main control board but I was able to fix that a long time ago. I know that these washers have had problems with the bearings for the tub going. My wife brought to my attention about a week ago that the washer would not spin out fully with a heavy load in it and that it made this louder noise when it started to spin. Yesterday i took it out of the back where it is and brought to the central part of the basement so that I could pull it apart. I was figuring that it was the main bearings and watched a lot of videos on replacing them. However when I opened up the back I did not see any leaking of water around the spindle or anything like that. It still turned even though it seemed to be a little stiff. there was no play whatsoever. I am now wondering if the problem is the motor and not the tub bearings. I have taken a few videos and wondered if someone here could tell what the problem may be. I have linked the YouTube videos below. In addition when I opened up the front of the tube I could not believe my eyes. The brown what i believe to be soap scum was gross looking. I have removed the inner tub from the washer spinner support so i could start to clean the thing up. This will take some time. We do not use any bleach in the washer because I have a septic tank and leach bed and I do not want to put bleach down it. The septic system is about 24 years old and is doing great. However I am wondering if not using bleach is why all the build up and also maybe why the main bearings have lasted as long as they have. Any comments on this are welcome. I took a bunch of pictures of the front so if you want to see them you can find them here https://goo.gl/photos/7W75w3vBdQ9k6FxH7 this was taken with the pump connected and the belt on these next 2 videos were taken with the belt off so you are only hearing the motor but you are also hearing the pump. This next one is just turning the tub by hand. The last one is with the belt on and the pump disconnected so there is no pump noise. It goes through the complete spin cycle and that is why it is 13+ mins long.