Austin;

I have not changed out outer Tub Bearings on my Series 16 and 17 machines so I may be in the same situation as you are when it comes time for an Outer Tub rebuild. My Series 10 machine did have the Upper One-Way bearing ring and thus the notches in the Outer Tub. My Series 15 & 17 do not use the Upper One-Way Bearing Ring. And those machines may or may not have the notches in the bottom of the Outer Tub.

I have seen post where a Series 15 and 16 owners machine did use the Upper One-Way bearing ring so it looks like Maytag had some machines hit the big box stores with the old outer tub design which I thought changed at series 12 and above. I have mentioned this on other forums and I believe this forum about this.

So if my Series 16 or 17 did not have those notches I would be in the same boat as you with an Outer Tub bearing rebuild.......that is how do I incorporate the Upper One-Way bearing ring to the rebuild.

What I see is that the Upper One-Way bearing ring prevents wash basket/Spinner Support rotation in the CW direction of Clutch Pulley rotation……the wash/agitate cycle.

You removed the intergraded Outer tub bearing with one half as standard ball bearing i.e. like the 6207-2RS bearing and the other half which is the One-Way bearing part…..is that correct?

If so you need to incorporate that Upper One-Way bearing ring that will come with your new Clutch Pulley assembly. How to do that is the challenge with an Outer Tub with no notches.

I can’t speak to a proper retro fit for this situation “”I was thinking that I could just dremel out the notches myself.””.

If you look at the post from Ken P he got back in service. I'm not sure how if he did that if he did not use the Upper One-Way bearing ring with the plain vanilla 6207-2RS bearings in his Outer Tub rebuild....... My question is what is preventing his Spinner Support/Wash basket from rotating CW with CW rotation of his Clutch Pulley in the Wash/Agitate cycle?????


Ken P. if you read this post can you add your final status of your Outer Tub rebuild without using the Upper One-Way bearing ring?

Austin do you have a Pic of bottom of your Outer Tub that you can post?

Taking a dremel tool and grinding out the notches might work but that is WAG from here. Maybe another owner or an appliance tech with some FAV6800A/FAV9800A outer tub rebuild experience can chime in.

Wish I could be of more help. Please keep us posted on the direction you go………Dick

""I would also like to know what is keeping the tub from spinning.""

Normal operation is the wash basket spins CCW freely and should never rotate CW.

Did you try to install the new Upper One Way Bearing on reassembly?

Pic below of the Clutch Pulley Assembly with my notes;

Understand you are waiting for a new Clutch Pully assembly but what I don't understad is this ""I would also like to know what is keeping the tub from spinning.""

With the Clutch Pulley removed and new Outer Tub bearings installed the wash basket should rotate CCW the spin direction and CW. The Clutch Pulley mounted One-Way bearing locks up with Clutch Pulley CCW/spin rotation and spins the Spinner Support CCW in the Outer Tub bearings.....the Spin part of the wash cycle or Spin Only Cycle.

The Upper Bearing ring One-Way bearing is the same bearing type as in the Clutch Pulley One-Way bearing only pressed in to prevent CW rotation of the Spinner Support/wash basket in wash/agitate part of the wash cycle.

Your original One-Way bearing that prevented this CW rotation of the wash basket during wash/agitate CW rotation of the Clutch Pulley was the dual/split outer tub bearing that you removed. I refer to this as the intergrated Outer Tub bearing. One half of that split bearing assembly is plain ball bearing and the other half is the One-Way bearing that prevents the wash basket/Spinner Support from rotating CW during the wash/agitate cycle.

Sorry if this is clear as mud I have not rebuilt my machines (series 16 & 17) that do not have the Upper One Way Bearing ring. But I feel my description is correct for it's operation, but if anyone on the forum knows different please chime in and correct me.

As I mentioned If I have to replace that special split bearing Outer Tub bearing assembly and my Outer Tub Tub does not have the notches I will be in a difficult situation. I think you are the 1st forum member from all forums I have commented on that is trying to rebuild a FAV6800A/FAV9800A outer Tub machine without the notches in the bottom of the Outer Tub that the ears of the Upper Bearing ring slip into during assembly.

Was the split bearing assembly you replaced with the 6207-2RS bearing useable or was it seized/rusted up? That should have been the Lower Outer Tub bearing assembly closest to the Clutch Pulley/Squared end agitator shaft that keys into the Clutch Pulley housing.

I and other forum members have not found that special bearing assembly anywhere in the US. Maybe located somewhere in China. I think Maytag's answer is to replace the Outer Tub at $400+ to get a set of $8 bearings.

As soon as I get an opportunity I'm going to tear down one of my machines that has no Upper Bearing ring so I can speak more clearly on the rebuild issues

If you were close to the 19344 area I would swap out your Outer Tub with my Series 10 machine so you could get back in service and I could play/work the issue.....this is fun right?

Good Luck Austin.......Dick

Here is a pic of the bottom of my washer. I cleaned up the area with a wire brush so you could see better.

correct I installed the new 6207 on the bottom and added two large washers I picked up from ACE.

I am going to take my original bottom bearing and see if they can do two seperate bearing, one thinner 6207 and one one way bearing with the combined total width of the original.