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Hi, I've got a 7 yr old LG WM2050CW Front-load Washer in which the bearings seem to be going. Symptoms are that it sounds like a jet engine roaring on high-speed spin, there's a bit of play in the inner basket when I manipulate it, and when I opened it up there were rust stains/splatters and rust coating the rotor & stator. I've gotten the unit apart and was hoping to either replace the bearings or purchase a rear outer tub assembly (which includes new bearings & seal already in place). Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the inner basket separated from the outer tub. I've read the entries in the forums and watched online videos, including this thread: I've got the rear outer tub up on blocks so the inner basket hangs freely. I've tried several times over several days; applied Liquid Wrench, then switched to Blaster penetrating catalyst, reapplied various times, tap & sit, sit overnight, etc. I've tried pounding the spindle/shaft originally with a hammer & block of wood, then switched to pounding directly with a 3 lb dead blow hammer. The spindle/shaft won't budge; no progress whatsoever. I even tried to buy/download the service manual to see if there was something I was missing, but I'm not a professional, so I can't upgrade my membership to purchase the manual. Obviously, if I can't get these separated, it's not worth trying to repair this machine. I can't imagine there's some special lock holding this in place which needs to be released, but before I give up I figured I'd check on this forum to see if anyone has any advice or secrets to share about getting these two units separated. Thanks in advance!

Hi, My washer has been having issues rotating in one particular direction and I've tried to debug the issue in hope that I could change the part to fix it. It does turn sometimes, but it makes a bad noise and in parts of the cycle, it completely refuses to rotate. I ran the test mode to help figure out what could be at play here and the first test passed without any problem. The RPM read within the expected range. The 2nd & 3rd test however failed miserably. The reading of the RPM was completely unstable going from 30 -> 150. I couldn't quite read any number as it was changing that quickly in seemingly pseudo-random fashion. What could be going wrong here? Some thoughts I had after doing some research: Perhaps the hall sensor is messing up. However if it was bad, I would expect it to also fail the first test Perhaps the main board is busted? It only applies to a set of tests which is a bit weird I believe that the first test runs clockwise while the second runs counter-clockwise? So I wonder if that's not a clue here. The bearing could be worn off, but that wouldn't quite explain why it works for test #1. Thoughts? I can take a video if it helps. Thanks,