I Sold The 2000 Whirlpool Direct Drive Washer

Originally recorded March 22, 2024.
As the title states, the Whirlpool direct drive has been sold!
It's come to that point for me where I need to start liquidating stuff for the future. I can at least take solace in the fact that the Whirlpool has gone to a good home. Maybe another machine will pop up down the road to fix and resell. Perhaps a pre-1986 belt drive, in which case, I might have to keep that one!
In the meantime though, there are also some other things upcoming for the channel that I talk about more in-depth in the video.

[@SaturnMist09]

I cannot wait to see what the new machine is that you have! So happy you are back and putting out videos.

[@lizboz]

Thanks.

[@seana806]

Sounds like the ‘86 Kenmore had a center post seal which failed. As Gordon mentioned on the AW forum, they would “spill it’s guts” when the center post seals failed on the ‘78 to ‘86 belt drives along with the direct drives as well. Thankfully, my Whirlpool has the full height center post (on all belt drives made between 1947 to 1977) which can run for quite some time when the center post seals begin to fall since it’s above the water lever on the highest water level.

[@lizboz]

Good to know. Yeah I have those seals on order now and they're shipped. Should be here within the next week.

[@jaykay18]

Sorry to hear that the machine was sold, hard to get rid of such great machines, I know. But, if it was sold to a party who will give it a good home, and bought it because they know what the quality of these machines were, then I guess that's fair.

[@lizboz]

Yeah the guy I sold it to said that previously they had a new one that crapped out on them, and nobody at the place they got it from would help them or do anything about it. So they threw that one out on the way to picking up this one. Subsequently, he said that he was happy to see that this one was old school and didn't have "fancy buttons" or any "computerized controls" in it, so that's hopeful.

[@jaykay18]

@@lizboz That's a very common story these days. Sounds like he will be happy with it. First load, he's going to see it go and be like "Why did we ever get rid of this in the first place?"

[@lizboz]

@@jaykay18 Yep!