Bissell 3521-6 soft body seems excessively loud

[silentjon]

I picked up this thing a few days ago. Cleaned it up, pulled the motor apart, repacked bearings, and replaced the fan. It sounds much better than it did before, but it's still rather loud. Any ideas?

 

[dustin]

I have had two of the soft bag Bissells, and both were super loud and had pretty wimpy cleaning power. I would imagine yours is working fine.

 

[diabeticdoode]

Do you have any before and after pictures? (I just love that style, sorry I'm not really any help haha)

 

[silentjon]

Never took any real before pictures, the first thing i did was wipe it down and reattatch the bag to the top bag holder. here's what i have though

 

[silentjon]

#2

...

 

[silentjon]

#3

coming apart...

 

[silentjon]

#4

old fan vs new. I love how somehow I just happened to have a brand new fan for one of these laying around

 

[silentjon]

#5

fans again

 

[silentjon]

#6

all back together and mostly cleaned up. Cell phone pictures don't show it very well, but my camera is broken

 

[diabeticdoode]

Nice! Very sharp. My neighbor used to have one waaaay back, and if I remember right it was noisy. So maybe it's just their thing? idk. Excellent job tidying it up though!

 

[silentjon]

I dont remember the one i had when i was younger being quite this loud. same exact model too
well, until i shattered the fan in it, then you could hear it on the other side of the world

 

[bvac6]

Noise

Those always kind of roared,like the Eureka Bravo, It was just kind of their thing.

 

[silentjon]

Well I suppose if I want to use a quiet vacuum I can just use my Hoover 29 lol