Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

Once a dryer s thermal fuse has blown it is no longer of any use.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

Kenmore dryer doesn t heat up 20 dollar repair learn how to easily replace the thermal fuse. Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e. We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. If the element is defective then it will not heat.

How to open a dryer cabinet. Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.

Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. Over time the heating element can burn out causing the dryer not to heat. When running the dryer isn t heating up also. If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it.

Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat. How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter. Another possible cause for a dryer not heating up could be attributed to a faulty thermal fuse. I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move.

In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs. We also changed the heating element and it not the problem. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber.