Hi Harby,

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with LG washers. Maybe somebody else on the forum can help you better.

Gene.

can you tell me if i have to take the drum out and beat the shit out of this thing to get it apart please respond i need info

to answer the initial question, yes, disassembly and pounding are required.

Once I had the tub split in half, I put it up on blocks and soaked it in liquid wrench over night. I got the center where the bearing met the shaft and the outer edge where the bearing met the tub.

In the morning I put the bolt back in the end of the shaft and hit it HARD with a heavy hammer. It eventually dropped out.

Then I flipped it over and soaked down the edges of the inner bearing. While that was soaking, I pounding out the outer bearing with a punch and heavy masonry hammer. I tried to work slowly, but I had to hit it really hard to get it started.Once started, I could work my way around and work it out slowly.

Then I flipped it back and pounded out the inner bearing. I put the end of a crow bar on it as it would span the whole bearing and I didn't have to worry about it twisting as it came out. But I still had to hit it hard to get started.

Then I cleaned all the inner surfaces and re-assembled.

By the way, I replaced both bearings, the seal and the tub gasket(seal where the two halves joined. I'm glad I did them all.

except for the pounding, the job took 2 hours. I probably spent two more hours on the pounding and cleaning.

Never would have gotten it done without the excellent videos on this site.