Product review (5 stars): Solved my very loud dryer issue
I was ready to buy a new dryer but figured I would give this a shot. It was making such a loud noise. I first thought it must be a bearing. I then noticed that after the drum stopped moving, it still made the noise for a few seconds. That ruled out anything with the drum. I took out the drum and spun the blower motor and it was off the shaft. Some people said to get the motor too because the metal piece from the blower motor would be seized. I just used a dremel with cutoff wheel to cut a line down two sides of the metal piece on the shaft and then put a screw driver in the slot and twisted it and it broke in half leaving the shaft untouched to screw on the new fan. Everything went better than expected. You should be able to do this job without taking the drum out. I just took my drum out to investigate the noise. I could have spun the blower motor after just taking the front off.