At the bottom, center of the washer unit is the transmission ( if that is what it is called ) which continues up into the metal washer drum. Not sure of the best way to remove this, I started unbolting the bottom half of the transmission to free it up to slide it up into the drum when I realized that there is a spring under 200lbs of pressure. I stopped taking out the bolts. This piece of metal would have shot out at me at 200lbs force. So, just a word to use caution when dealing with anything spring loaded. I will retry using tinman#30 method working from inside the drum and busting off the plastic sleeve and pull unit down out of the washer unit. BTW, this tranny is mostly cast aluminum, and very large.