The dryer is making a terrible squeaking sound.

it sounds like your bearing are gone you can buy a bearing kit its not an easy job but if your a handy man or woman it can be done

All ge dryers have a center bearing on the back side of the drum and drum glides on the frontside. The glides make a scrubbing sound when bad and the drum is hard to turn. The rear bearing does a squeak thang when the plastic bearing wears thin and begins to make metal to metal contact between drum mount and rear bulkhead mount. It is an easy fix but the drum gotta come out. here is my pictorial page that shows how with videos and repair pix:
Paw Paws GE dryer repair page

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heatman101

Hi,
That sounds like an idiler pulley bearing...now the belt is either loose or turning hard and the motor pulley is burning it up...

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heatman101

The terrible squeak is probably the idler pulley shaft spalling in the idle pulley mount. When the idler pulley siezes to to pulley shaft it spins in the mount and makes a horrible racket.

It can be the motor bearings also but I doubt it at this time. With the belt off you can spin the motor and listen for any odd sound. If you hear nothing then the problem is definately the idler pulley assy.

It is normal for the drum to float in place. When there is a problem with the drum or drum felts, you usually hear a cyclic scrape or grinding sound that is concurrent with each rotation of the drum.

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Kelly

The squeaking noise can be caused by any of the following.

Location High:

Belt slipping on the dryer drum

Worn Drum seals but would sound more like a dragging noise

Location Low:

Belt tensioner pulley bearing frozen and the idler pulley shaft is spinning inside the belt tensioner assy.

Belt slipping on the motor bearing

Motor bearing is dry

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Kelly

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Dryer Repair Squeaks, Grinding, Clicking and Knocking Noise


heatman101

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please replace felt around drum thank you for useing fixya RATE ME

Hi,
Here is a tip that I wrote about dryers and noises...

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Dryer Repair Squeaks, Grinding, Clicking and Knocking Noise


heatman101


879dgyj

Hi .thanks for the question. the noise is from the drum rollers . you can buy a drum roller kit for kenmore dryer . to repair. lift out lint screen remove 2 screws . with a flat screw driver pry the top up between the top and front at each corner. lift top 2 screws on the inside of front panel remove pull front off . remove drum . replace parts in drum repair kit . thanks the appliance doc