383EER4004A/383EER4001A Washer Spring Expansion Removal Tool for LG Samsung Whirlpool and Kenmore 4986ER0004F/B/G Washing Machine Inner Outer Door Boot Seal Spring Clamp Removal Tool

Saved a lot of time and wear and tear on my patience. Really works nice.

Makes putting that spring on a breeze. Highly recommended

Used these on my LG WH3500. If you got your seal here you already saved a ton of money, spend a tiny bit on these and save yourself a ton of time and hassle! This is the tool that made the job super easy. This is probably the only time I will perform this operation, but for 10.00 they were worth every penny in the work they saved me vs trying to do it without them. They are high quality steel with comfortable grips. Very ergonomic, and they have convenient grooves to hold the spring rings cut in the tips. Highly recommend!

Works well enough but could be better if a bit longer and spread out a bit further. Our LG door gasket needed replaced and these are WAY cheaper than the LG branded ones sold at the appliance center.

They actually work really good. It's better than fighting a screw driver. You'll need these puppies anytime you're working on your washer drum and other brands of washers. Have fun!

These pliers were described on Amazon as required to assist in the removal of front loading clothes washer door gaskets, specifically, the Bosch 300 series. I They arrived well within the advertised time frame. However, in my 60+ years of handling tools of all sorts/fields, I've never come across a more-crudely tool/device. It appears to be 'hand-crafted' exhibited by the hammer-marks and vice marks and rough finish. I can forego those discrepancies, but the return spring is not strong enough to push the jaws apart, the jaws are misaligned, the pivot pin is oozing some sort of very black liquid (other than crude oil I've never seen a lubricant this color), and most-disturbing - the jaw tips are too large to fit into the spring that encircles the door gasket and the jaws don't open wide enough to perform the very functions they were supposedly designed for! Save your money - try using a simple string to pull the spring ends apart enough to fit around the gasket. Am returning mine.

This tool works well on the outer boot spring clamp of the LG front loading washer but unfortunately it does not work well on the inner boot spring clamp. I don't know why LG made the two boot spring clamps differently. The outer spring clamp has an extension spring fit into the wire clamp that has loops at the end that actually fit the tips of the clamp expansion tool very well. The inner boot clamp is a completely different story, the clamp had a loop and hook on one end of the spring clamp and just a loop on the other end of the spring. The two opposing clamp loops on the inner spring boot clamp are too far from one another to use the tool to expand the clamp spring using the clamp loops and the tool's tips are too big to fit into the loops of the spring (not the loops of the wire clamp, the loops of the spring) and allow the wire clamp hook and loop ends to fit in at the same. I watched a video and the repair technician uses the LG spring compression tool with tips that are much thinner and offset at 90 degrees. The LG tool compresses the the clamp on one end of the inner boot clamp expanding the spring to one side instead of trying to stretch the spring at both ends where this tool doesn't have the reach or fit, like it does with the front outer boot clamp. In order to make this spring expansion tool work on the I had to modify the spring on the inner boot clamp and open the spring ends from closed loops to open hooks which weakens the clamp slightly. Both tools are needed because I don't see how the LG tool would work on the front outer boot spring clamp. It was really stupid for LG to make the inner and outer boot sprig clamps different from one another. Unfortunately I did not compare the diameter of both the inner and outer boot spring clamps to see if the inner clamp could be substituted with buying and using an extra outer boot spring clamp which costs only about $10 instead of buying the LG tool which costs almost $60.

Works great for Samsung washer gasket replacement