Spent 6 months changing dryer belts the hard way before a customer showed me the trick

So I was wrestling with a belt on a Samsung dryer last Tuesday, took me like 20 minutes to get it routed right. Customer was watching me and just goes "you know you can pop the drum out instead of fighting it through the front, right?" I felt like an idiot. All that time I was taking the top and front off and trying to thread the belt around the drum while holding tension. Now I just pull the drum out, put the belt on the drum first, and slide it back in. Takes 5 minutes tops. Anyone else discover a simple fix they wish they learned sooner?

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alicesingh1mo ago

Ha, reminds me of the time I spent an hour trying to get a belt on a Whirlpool before my buddy walked over and did it in thirty seconds.

margaret_kelly551mo ago

Yeah that thirty second trick is magic, I found flipping the belt on the pulley made all the difference.

amy_murphy8516d ago

Hold on a sec, flipping the belt on the pulley isn't actually what fixes it most of the time. The real trick is loosening the tensioner all the way, not just flipping anything. I've seen people try that flip move and it just makes the belt slip worse because they didn't adjust the tension right after. Maybe it worked once for someone but it's not a standard fix, you know? I'd check the tension first before messing with the belt orientation. Does your machine have that little spring loaded arm on the side?