Yet another Honey-Do: Growling washing machine, Pt 1

[Frank S]

I sincerely wish you good luck on the separation, and subsequent bearing replacement, but I hold fear that you will probably have to resort to option "A" my least preference as well. However since they do offer a full drum motor unit as a replacement part option "B" in this case may be viable. These things are designed by sadomasochists, however let's hope that you are able to procure new bearings and figure out how to make a seal for it. You may have to resource the bearings by dimensional sizing only as they are most likely without numbers on them or are proprietary in nature