"Raymond Cruz" wrote in message .. .
OK -- you encouraged me to try harder. Now I see that with much, much more
force than was needed counter clockwise to agitate, the tub spins with
clockwise rotation of the shaft. I guess this means I should go ahead and
reassemble with the new coupler.

RHL

Hi,

I would.

The agitation direction is fairly easy to turn and the spin direction
starts to get stiff when pushing against the brake and the clutch is
loading up to start the basket to spin.

jeff.
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