Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair.
Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.
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.
The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.
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.
The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element.
How to open a dryer cabinet.
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In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs.
When running the dryer isn t heating up also.
To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity.
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.
We also changed the heating element and it not the problem.
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.
We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing.
If the element is defective then it will not heat.
If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it.
If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it.