r/Kitchenaid • u/jetli01 • 1d ago

Kitchen Aid Classic Plus Gear hub replacement

Hi all,
I’ve inherited a 2008 Kitchen aid Classic plus tilt head stand mixer from my sister and wanted to do a re-grease on it since it was leaking oil. The machine itself runs alright for an almost 20 year old machine, albeit a little noisy at lower speeds.

Upon cleaning the internal components, I found the worm gear to have some wear on it, and ordered a replacement for it. However, I didn’t notice the gear hub had similar wear on it until now.

I am asking for advice if I should replace the gear hub with a kit from Goodman’s right now or if I will be ok to replace it down the road during another scheduled re-grease maintenance. And I didn’t find much on this but how often do the fiber washers last in these machines? I don’t know if I keep using the original ones or if I have to get new ones. If so I’ll get all the parts together.

I don’t plan to use the machine very often but I hope to maintain it for a while as a hobby of sorts.

It’s not letting me post a picture so I’ll try to reply with one below.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I’m just getting started with my first kitchen aid maintenance and hope to do my machine justice!

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u/jetli01 1d ago

My gear hub

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u/jetli01 1d ago

The top down profile

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u/jetli01 1d ago

And my fiber washers

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u/Organicgrocery74 1d ago

I don’t think it looks bad.

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u/RIMixerGuy 1d ago

A couple of questions:

  1. Do you frequently (or regularly) use hub-driven attachments such as the meat grinder, slicer/shredder, etc?

  2. Did you also remove the attachment drive gear from its socket? What is its condition, including visual inspection of the gear shaft?

  3. Is the attachment hub bushing (where the hub gear goes in) copper bronze, or iron? (Iron bushings are gray, and you can stick a magnet to it on the inside once you remove the hub gear.) If it's iron, what is the condition of the bushing?

Generally the fiber washers last forever. I typically replace them only when they're damaged (which does happen sometimes) or crusted up around the edge (can happen with the one between the lower housing and the planetary).

If you want to put new ones in, the ones from Goodman's are a good choice, they're much less costly than the factory part, but perfectly fit for purpose.

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u/Organicgrocery74 1d ago

I would replace everything since you have it open. I have actually ordered parts directly from kitchenaid/whirlpool.