Easly off balanced now.

[ShawnTRD]

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OK guys.. This washer has been working great. But the other day I heard a pop, or crack. Some type of noise that sounded like something broke. I first thought it was one of the springs on the basket because it started shacking more then normal. It's not that bad, but it is loader and when I open it the basket is moving around side to side a lot. The hole washer isn't shacking as bad as the GE I had before, but worse then it's been.  The wife was just washing some jeans and asked if it was always going to be this load now. I moved one of the jeans a little and it helped. But I'm wondering what could have broke. I took the case off and all the springs at the base (4 of them) are still there.

Thanks

Model LSR7233EQ0

[Repair-man]

There's more to the tub stabilization than just the springs. You may have a broken tub support or the skate plate may be missing some of the snubber pads. See the following diagram :

[PARTech]

I have seen the skate plate get out of alignment and cause this problem as well.  Usually from an overload or as RP points out, one of the snubbers...

[JWWebster]

The pads are fairly cheap HERE

[ShawnTRD]

"skate plate may be missing some of the snubber pads"

??
I'm a little lost.

[Repair-man]

In the diagram above, the skate plate is the triangular-looking piece that sits under the tub support bracket. Here's a short video clip showing how it works...

Skate plate short video

[ShawnTRD]

Ok took a while but I'm getting around to looking at this problem. I have the case off and I can't tell what might be wrong. Without removing more then just the outer shall is there a way for me to tell whats wrong?

[JWWebster]

The triangular shaped floating skate plate should be aligned with the triangular shaped base.

[ShawnTRD]

It is

[ShawnTRD]

I can't seem to find anything broke. Now what?

[ShawnTRD]

Someone told me the tub can come out of the grove it rides in. Anyone have info of how to prove and fix that?

[JWWebster]

That plastic tubular thingy (lower center 6th frame) is a shipping pin, needs to be removed. click on pic to make bigga

[ShawnTRD]

Ok washing some stuff now and it seems to be better. 

How where those pins making it go off balance? They were not up.

[Mr. Fix-It]

They wouldn't if they weren't in. I would still suspect the skate plate did you remove and inspect it, were all 3 plastic glides in place?

[ShawnTRD]

The only thing I did is removed the shipping pins.