Made in China - not like original
I bought this item for my Kenmore 90 series gas dryer. It was a decent price, but is now sold by another vendor for $49.95 on Amazon! This replacement motor is listed as a Whirlpool FSP part, but it differs significantly from the one replaced. It draws 6.2 amps not 5.7, is made in China, and has much thinner copper windings. It is significantly louder than the original motor, although not offensive.
Finally Got It Right !!!
This motor was shipped as a replacement for the first motor that was shipped which was not the correct part for my dryer.
This is my first and perhaps last bad experience with Amazon.com as I may well end up closing my Amazon account.
Partshouse shipped 279827 motor as a replacement for original 3395654 motor. The shafts were much too long to work so I contacted Partshouse.
A Partshouse employee indicated that this was the correct motor and that if I ordered another replacement I would receive the exact same motor. I was told that I could "shorten" the shafts and make it work.
Shortning the shafts would mean cutting both shafts off with a hacksaw which would remove the threads on both ends ruining the motor.
I finally received a reply from another Partshouse employee, perhaps the owner, who told me I was shipped the wrong motor and that 279787 motor number was the correct one.
I reordered a 279787 motor assuming the...
Dryer now works
My 13 year old Kenmore dryer started having trouble starting, then it started turning off after 30 mins of run time. I tried cleaning 13 years of lint out from the motor but that did not fix it so I decided a new motor is cheaper than a new dryer. First, the seller, Seneca River Trading, Inc., did a great job getting the motor to me in 3 days. I highly recommend. The motor is an overall good replacement but has some have mentioned here, there are a few differences. First, this is not an FSP part. It is not made in the USA but made in China. It does pull 6.2 amps versus the original pulls 5.9 amps (amps on label, I did not measure). 0.3 amps is very little difference and is probably due to small differences in the coil wiring. The motor fit with no issues. I did notice the motor comes wired to by-pass the belt break switch in the dryer. I am not a fan of by-passing safety switches so I wanted to wire the belt break sensor to the new motor. The blue wire connector on the...
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