Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

If your kenmore elite dryer runs but does not heat then there are a series of troubleshooting steps you can do yourself to repair your dryer.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element. If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it. The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.

I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move. How to open a dryer cabinet. 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.

If the element is defective then it will not heat. 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. When running the dryer isn t heating up also.

Once a dryer s thermal fuse has blown it is no longer of any use. Electric current flowing through the coil creates heat and the air being pulled through the chamber absorbs this heat. Produced by scott the fix it guy with 20 years of repair e. How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter.

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