© 1998 Maytag Corporation
16008373-01 SECTION 7. OUTER TUB & SPINNER ASSEMBLY 7-2
6. Unsnap the locking tabs of the door boot
around the inside perimeter of the door
shroud
(Figure 7-1).
REPLACEMENT
1. Align the door boot with the D-shape to-
ward the front, with the flat of the D to-
ward the bottom. Also, locate the large
tab toward the top center of the shroud.
2. Stretch the rear lip of the door boot onto
the tub cover.
3. Move the rear door boot lip along the face
of the tub cover until the locator notches
in the door boot align with the locator ribs
in the tub cover. Check alignment of the
six rib marks and reposition if necessary.
This is necessary in order to have the lock-
ing tabs on the inside perimeter of the door
boot align with the corresponding tabs on
the front shroud.
4. Carefully loop the wire loop with spring
around the lip of the outer tub cover and
place the spring at the 11:00 o'clock posi-
tion, just left of the top rib of the outer tub
cover. Hook the end of the spring over the
nearest tub cover clip to hold the spring
and wire in position for final hookup to the
other end of the wire loop.
5. Using either the hold down bracket or the
outer tub spring, grasp the hook end of
the spring and apply pressure on the
clamp wire into the door boot.
6. Pull the spring hook toward the wire loop
to engage the spring with the wire loop.
NOTE:
Be careful not to bend or crease the
wire loop. If the wire loop becomes bent, the
result will be a potential leak upon replace-
ment of the boot seal onto the outer tub
cover.
OUTER TUB COVER
The outer tub cover has a gasket seal em-
bedded in the outer flange of the cover to
seal the cover to the outer tub. The cover is
secured to the outer tub by means of twelve
(12) locking clips evenly spaced around the
perimeter of the cover. When the outer tub
cover is removed, access to the sump area
and the front injector flume is possible.
REMOVAL
1. Disconnect power to the unit.
2. Remove the front panel, top cover and
front shroud
(See Front Panel, Top
Cover, and Front Shroud Removal).
3. Using a flathead screwdriver, slide un-
der the clip and pry to remove. Remove
the remaining clips from the outer tub
cover.
4. Remove the cover from the outer tub.
This exposes the sump area on the floor
of the outer tub and the water injector
flume on top of the outer tub.
7. Reposition the front shroud on the front
of the washer and secure
(See Front
Shroud).
8. Pull the front edge of the door boot and
locate the widest locking tabs, located
at the 12, 4 & 8 o'clock positions. Insert
the locking tabs into the large interlock-
ing slots in the shroud. (Spraying the
surface with window cleaner or a soap
solution aids reinsertion of the tabs into
the plastic front shroud.) Press the thick
rubber section of the door boot into the
groove in the shroud so the locking tabs
engage in the slots.
9. Press the remaining locking tabs into the
perimeter of the shroud.