Product review (5 stars): 279827 Dryer Motor
Dryer motor 279827. From PARTSHOUSE.  Mexican made FSP-Whirlpool part, works great. NOT a cheap Chinese copy. This is a new part, not rebuilt.

Ordered Feb. 2013 through Amazon 8pm Friday night on long weekend, therefore no Monday mail. Arrived in Boston Wed. AM using standard shipping (USMail). Shipped from PARTSHOUSE in PA.

Also bought belt 341241 which appears generic even though photo shows an FSP-Whirlpool packaging. Saved old belt for a spare, just in case.

This motor is so quiet I can now hear the air going up and out the exhaust.  The old motor must have been junk for a very long time.  Eventually it started overheating and shutting down, and would make a buzzing sound at start-up.  Motor bearings were squeaking too.  While I had it apart, changed the drum rear rollers, cleaned it all up, and scraped every bit of the noise-generating caked-on gunk out of the rear roller track on the drum, and I am waiting for front and rear drum seals and front drum glides from another vendor, who is not as quick as Amazon's Partshouse.

New appliances seem to have a very high failure rate and a short lifespan, so for less than $150 I changed out the guts on this old Whirlpool and it's better than new.

There are online appliance repair clinic videos on other sites which also sell parts.  If you're a little bit handy, these appliances are fairly easy to fix.

When ordering this motor, be sure the bearing color is the same as your old motor (blue or orange).  The part numbers are similar for similar-looking motors, so be careful.  Also, the fan has REVERSE THREADS on the motor shaft, so "right is loose, left is tight" in this application, instead of normal left-is-loose-right-is-tight.

I hope this helps someone get their stuff going again.