Kenmore Electric Dryer Not Heating Up

The heating element assembly warms the air before it enters the dryer drum.

Kenmore electric dryer not heating up.

Over time the heating element can burn out causing the dryer not to heat. Another possible cause for a dryer not heating up could be attributed to a faulty thermal fuse. 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. How to open a dryer cabinet.

I have a kenmore 200 series dryer model number 110 62332511 and the dryer keeps running and timer doesn t move. We replaced the timer and it still does the same thing. If your dryer s fuse is blown you will have to replace it. If the element is defective then it will not heat.

We also changed the heating element and it not the problem. Troubleshooting your dryer is the hardest part of the repair. If the heating element assembly does not have continuity replace it. How to test a dryer s heating element with a multi meter.

To determine if the heating element assembly has burned out use a multimeter to test it for continuity. Open up your dryer s cabinet and locate its thermal fuse so that you can test it. When running the dryer isn t heating up also. Once a dryer s thermal fuse has blown it is no longer of any use.

In this video i show you how to fix a kenmore dryer that is not heating but still runs. The problem could be a bad thermal fuse a thermistor or in my case the electric heating element. The element is a coil of heating wire enclosed in a metal chamber.