Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity. When running the dryer isn t heating up also. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum. We also changed the heating element and it not the problem.

Another possible cause for a dryer not heating up could be attributed to a faulty thermal fuse. Kenmore dryer doesn t heat up 20 dollar repair learn how to easily replace the thermal fuse. Over time the heating element can burn out causing the dryer not to heat. Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it.

Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. How to open a dryer cabinet. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber. I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move.

If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it. Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat. If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it. If the element is defective then it will not heat.

We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element. In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs.