Product review (5 stars): Wet floor equals wet socks.
"Oh no!" along with an awful squealing noise is what I heard coming from the laundry room the day before my family and I were to make the 1200 mile road trip to Disneyland. I ran to the cause of the noise and found my wife trying to shut off a washing machine that was quickly flooding the laundry room floor. After getting the machine shut off and every shoe, jacket, chair and other assorted items that somehow found themselves in the laundry room that day up off the floor and out on to the back patio to dry I could asses the problem. My hope was that one of the cold or hot water hoses that feed the washing machine had split and sprayed water everywhere; easy fix. But no, the hoses were intact and it seemed as though the water was actually coming from the bottom of the machine itself. I knew then that I would be disassembling the machine and searching for the problem somewhere deep in the bowels of a household item that is supposed to just work and be left alone.

It took me about half an hour before I found the smoking gun; the seal between the tub and the transmission had been destroyed and allowed water to pour past it and down onto the drive belt (the squealing noise) and eventually onto the floor. I removed the seal, did a google search using my washing machine's model number and located the replacement kit. Amazon had the best price by about half so I made the purchase.

The part was waiting for me when we got back from Disneyland and I got everything back together inside of an hour. No leaks.