What tool is used to remove the mower belt tension spring?

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• Home made Washing Machine door seal retainer Spring Expander
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• No need to remove the top of the washing machine.
• What tool is used to remove the mower belt tension spring?
• This innovative tool saves time, muscle & trouble when you work on a front-loading washing machine!
• Tension Spring Expander

When the ring was in place I cut the cable ties with snips to release the spring. I had a 5" piece of M8 gal laying around. It's about $5 or so for a 4' length at the big green $2 shop. Wow great.Fantastic.Simple tool but very effective.I googled as mine came out of the washing machine, so to realign it i had to google.Wow Wonderful.I dont have a M 8 and since it is lockdown I will buy it tomorrow. I have a customer who put a lock nut on the top of the pulley bolt because he used this method for years , then the nut let go and he lost a finger tip. Sometimes even a long spannar on the nut that holds the pulley if pulled slowly can give you the extra leverage, but be careful cause the nut can let go suddenly. Choose a size and copy the code below to embed this guide as a small widget on your site / forum.

Take a spanner and begin adjusting one pair of nuts towards the other end of the rod, turning each nut in turn to keep the shank close to straight. The spring will expand as you go and eventually will be wide enough to fit over your washing machine door seal. Leave one pair near the end of the rod and tighten the nuts up against the eyelet.

Home made Washing Machine door seal retainer Spring Expander

That one will slip right out of your hand. The one that really blew me away was an 80+ farmer who welded a couple of turnbuckles together to make his special tool and welded a bolt onto the arm to slip the ring end over. I have seen owners who made a loop out of strong string then slip a long bar through them and pilot the bar against the frame somewhere.

On the other end, screw the nuts in far enough so that both eyelet shanks will enter the loops of the spring on your washing machine retainer. Grab a couple of steel screw in hooks or eyelets. If you have hooks like I did then you have to bend the open end near closed so the threaded rod will go through it. Mine has a 1.1/4" shank but I cut most of it off anyway in the next step. While I was fitting a new rubber door seal to our LG Front Loader I needed a spring expander tool to install the new spring retainer. Not wanting to spend any money I cast about and made one from some bits.

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With the retainer in place and the door seal fitted properly all around, loosen the same pair of bolts off until the tool is freed from the spring. Grab 4 nuts to suit the threaded rod , and fit 2 at one end of the rod with your eyelet sandwiched in the middle, and the other 2 with the second eyelet on the other end. To use the tool, simply move one of the eyelets in far enough on the rod so that both shanks will enter into the spring loops on the retainer. I found a spring hook tool with a T handle that should work well. I have a dozen spring tools which are just trampoline tools in different lengths so my arms or feet are in the right position to allow an easy pull. I used a 9/16 spanner and 2 cable ties to pull the spring apart toward each end of the spanner.