How to disassemble a Zanussi washing machine
Almost any repair of a Zanussi washing machine involves disassembling it, because the vast majority of parts are hidden inside the body. It is clear that complete disassembly is not always required; often it is enough to just remove the top cover or back wall and behold, the broken part is already before your eyes. But what should you do if you need to repair the crosspiece or bearings, or worse, you need to change the tank? In such cases, repairs can only be made by completely disassembling the Zanussi washing machine. How to do this, let's figure it out!
What tool is needed?
Let’s not “beat around the bush”, but let’s immediately start preparing, because it won’t be possible to disassemble a Zanussi washing machine with a 5 kg drum load right away. First we need to collect all the necessary tools. There shouldn't be any problems with this. It’s enough to rummage around in the garage, rummage in the pantry, and everything you need will be found:
- a set of screwdrivers (you can use a screwdriver with a set of heads of various configurations);
- a set of keys (you will need various keys, including spanners);
- a driver with a set of heads (mostly 7 and 8 mm);
- pliers (large and small);
- small pliers;
- bearing puller;
- mites;
- WD-40 liquid;
- hammer;
- awl;
- markers of several colors.
As you can see, the tool is simple, you can get all this without difficulty, so further discussion of this issue is pointless. The only thing I would like to note is to take only high-quality tools. When unscrewing fasteners with Chinese keys, you will most likely tear off their edges and then add more work to yourself. If you don’t have normal keys, ask your neighbor for the time of repairs or buy Soviet keys from junk dealers - you won’t regret it.
Let's get into the washing machine body
It would seem that it would be easier to climb into the body of a Zanussi washing machine and see what is there, to study, so to speak, its structure in practice. But it was not there. The body of old washing machines of this brand can be disassembled quite cunningly.
The top cover can be removed without any problems, we take a knob with an 8 mm head, unscrew two bolts, grab the cover, move it a little towards ourselves, and then up - nothing special. But the same cannot be said about removing the rear wall of a Zanussi washing machine. The body of the Zanussi washing machine has one serious feature - it does not have removable side walls. What does it mean?
For washing machines of most brands, the housing structure assumes the presence of five or six elements:
- top cover;
- bottom;
- back wall;
- front wall;
- left side wall;
- right side wall.
For your information! Some models of washing machines do not have a tray or a lid that covers the body from the bottom.
The Zanussi washing machine has an unusual device in that the body of this “home assistant” (except for the top and bottom) can be disassembled into two large halves:
- front wall, half of the left wall and half of the right wall of the body;
- back wall, half of the left wall and half of the right wall of the case.
To get to most of the necessary parts, such as the engine, drive belt, drain pipe, we need to completely remove the rear half of the housing. How to do it?
- We drag the Zanussi washing machine to where it will be convenient to work with it.
- We unscrew two or three (depending on the model) screws that are located at the bottom of the rear wall of the case.
- Remove the top cover of the machine as described above.
- Now we examine the side walls and find plastic plugs on them. Using an awl, pull off the plugs.
- Find the screws under the plugs and unscrew them.
- Let's move on to the upper part of the body. If you look into the upper part of the case without a lid, you will immediately notice a rather large metal plate that provides a stiffening rib. Along the edges of the plate we find screws holding the back of the case; they need to be unscrewed.
- The last element that prevents us from removing the rear part of the Zanussi washing machine body is the plastic fastener. A filling valve with two pipes is installed on it. There is no need to remove the pipes; we will pull off the entire mount by carefully prying up the plastic latches with a flat screwdriver.
- Now all we have to do is go around the back of the washing machine and pull the back of the body towards us, it should move and move back. We remove the back part of the case, and a picturesque view of the insides of the Zanussi washing machine opens to our eyes.
To make the back of your body move back faster, rock it from side to side.
Dismantling the main components
By removing the back of the Zanussi washing machine, we made it much easier for us to remove its main components. Now we can unscrew and pull out a lot for repairs, and nothing will interfere with us. What details are freely accessible?
- Drum pulley and drive belt.
- Rear counterweight.
- Washing machine motor.
- Anti-vibration racks.
- Heating element (heating element).
- Temperature sensor.
- Inlet valve with pipes.
- Drain pipe and pump.
- Two pressure switches.
- Interference filter.
- Watering pump (used for forced injection of water into the tank while washing things).
We begin the next stage of disassembling the Zanussi washing machine by removing the wires from the heating element (it is located under the drum pulley), the engine, and removing the temperature sensor from the tank. Next, remove the wires from the pressure switches. They are located in the upper left part of the machine body and the pump, which is located at the bottom left. Remove the wire from the intake valve. After this, we’ll do a very useful thing: unscrew the rear counterweight, so that later it will be easier for us to pull the washing machine during repairs. It is held on by 4 bolts.
Attention! All wires you remove must be marked using multi-colored markers and paper labels so that nothing gets mixed up later. After all, the electrical installation of a Zanussi washing machine may seem complicated to a beginner.
Remove the drive belt. We hold the belt with one hand and rotate the drum pulley with the other. The belt will come off easily. We remove the clamps from the pipes and pull them off. We take a wrench with an 8 mm head and unscrew the two bolts that hold the Zanussi washing machine motor at the front, and then unscrew two more screws at the back. Having unscrewed the fasteners, hold the engine from below with one hand, and lightly hit its pulley with the other - the motor will be removed.
Now we take out the heating element. Unscrew the nut located between its contacts. We lightly press on it, and then we take the heating element by the contacts and very carefully, swinging it to the sides, we begin to pull it towards ourselves. It is important here not to break off one of the contacts, otherwise you will have to change the heating element.
Next, remove the racks. On one side they are held on by peculiar plastic rods, and on the other by a regular screw.To remove the rod, you need to take a 14 mm socket, put your hand behind the rod and put the head on its latch. After this, you need to grab the front part of the rod with pliers and pull it towards you, holding the tank - the fasteners will pop out. Unscrew the rack from below and move it to the side. We do the same with the second rack.
We take out the pressure switches from the grooves, remove the clamps from the filler pipes and remove them together with the filler valve. Unscrew the watering pump and disconnect the hose from it. Now let's look into the washing machine body through the top. On the top wall of the tank we see a small breather pipe, we carefully pull it out. What's next?
- We come in from the front. Open the hatch of the Zanussi washing machine. We take our hand by the upper part of the rubber cuff of the hatch and slightly pull it towards ourselves.
- Next, use a flat screwdriver to pry up the plastic clamp and move it around until you find the latch. We disconnect the latch and remove the clamp.
- Since we have a Zanussi washing machine with watering and a large load, it means that in the upper part of the cuff there is an inlet to which the watering pipe is connected. Again, take the upper part of the cuff and pull it towards you.
- Remove the clamps from the pipe and the pipe itself.
Next, let's go around the back of the washing machine again and unscrew the interference filter. Now all that remains in the body is a tank with a drum, suspended on two springs, a control panel in front, a garbage filter, a UBL and a hatch cover. Hatch locking device and the hatch itself can be easily removed, you can read about this in a special article, so we won’t dwell on this in more detail. Anyone can also unscrew the garbage filter, but difficulties may arise with the control panel.
How is the control panel removed? We go around the front of the washing machine and pull out the powder receptacle from the niche. Unscrew the screws located behind the tray. Unscrew two more screws from above the panel. Next, slightly pry up the control panel with a flat-head screwdriver and remove it.
Be extremely careful, there is a bundle of wires coming to the control panel; they cannot be torn off.
Having removed everything that was possible, and having studied the structure of the Zanussi washing machine during disassembly, we left the body of the washing machine with a tank and a drum suspended on two springs. If we want a complete disassembly, we need to remove the tank from the springs and then disassemble it into parts.
Complete dismantling
Using the help of a friend, we remove the tank from the springs and pull it out of the washing machine body. It’s very easy to do this together, but alone you can tear your navel. Unscrew the front counterweight and remove it. We place the tank with the hatch down on a flat surface so that we have full access to the drum pulley. Next we perform the following steps.
- We block the pulley so that it does not spin. This can be done in any convenient way, for example, as shown in the picture.
- We take a hex screwdriver and try to unscrew the bolt that is located in the center of the pulley. If that doesn't work, you can lubricate the bolt, then wait a little and try again. When unscrewing the bolt, try not to tear off the hexagon.
- We grab the drum pulley with our hands and, swinging it from side to side, pull it up.
- Having removed the pulley, we need to disassemble the tank body into two parts.
For your information! The two halves of the tank housing of the Zanussi washing machine are held together with long screws, so its tank is considered collapsible.
- Take a wrench and an 8 mm socket and one by one unscrew all the screws holding the two
halves of the tank together.Once you remove the screws, the tank will come apart.
We were able to easily remove the front part of the tank, but the rear part is still securely attached to the drum through bearings, which in turn are mounted on the shaft. They need to be removed along with the tank. We take an old unnecessary screw that fits into the thread of the shaft (from where we unscrewed the bolt holding the pulley) and screw it there. Next, we substitute a wooden block and apply light blows to the screw through it with a hammer until the back of the tank comes off the bearing.
As a result, the rear part of the tank was left to the side, and we were left with a drum at the back, which had a cross and a shaft installed. It has a bearing and an oil seal. Next comes the hardest part.
- We drive the jaws of the puller under the bearing.
- We create tension by gradually tightening the thread of the puller.
- Generously fill the bearing with WD-40.
- We wait 30-40 minutes.
- Slowly unscrew the thread further and remove the bearing, and then the oil seal.
To summarize, we note that the structure of a Zanussi brand washing machine does not seem so complicated that you can trust its disassembly to a specialist. You can disassemble this washing machine yourself if you carefully study the instructions given in this article. The design of Zanussi washing machines may differ slightly depending on the model, but these differences are not significant. Some washing machine models, the drum load is a little larger for some models, there is no injection, and the like. All this won’t stop you from studying the instructions and disassembling your first Zanussi machine “screw by cog”. Good luck!
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