So, the dryer started making some terrible sounds. Suspected a drum roller but couldn’t find on line service manuals on my unit without paying like $10.
Screw that, just dug into it figuring out how to disassemble cause it’s what I do… There’s probably a hundred YouTube vids out there but, who has time for that? It’s like asking for directions when lost, haha.
Right rear roller is shot while the other three are still in good shape. I suspect it’s heat related because the burner is low on that side.
Now on the hunt for replacements trying to avoid the pitfalls of obviously inferior ‘compatible’ crap. Don’t feel like doing this again a year from now but damn it if “original OEM’ replacements aren’t $60-70! Insane!
Whatever goes in, I’m going to try to shield that side from the heat. There is just no other explanation for that side to fail like that. Interesting the front rollers are blue with part numbers in the casting but the rears are yellow without PNs. Easy to explain the color coding from a manufacturing perspective but all parts references I’ve found list all four as the same part.