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I have purchased the element assembly replacement kit from the app store, and I am just going to wing it and hope I was correct on the continuity tests being ok on the diode mode I was using and receiving 0.00 reading on the thermostats and fuse tests.

Thanks for your time and considerations regardless! Have a good evening. Great forums, I did find a lot of useful information here, albeit confusing at times for a newbie to this type of thing.

Thanks. My brother is a electrician and said he will check them for me this weekend, I will mention what I have learned anyway though. I did notice slight ohms reading when the two leads are together as you mentioned btw, I might go ahead and disconnect the wires and check them before he comes up just to see what it says.

So I can't really 100% tell its bad with just continuity test, something I noticed is my new heating element heats up fine, will cycle when on low fine like it should, but the blower is blowing all normal temperature air outside, i already cleaned the vent hole and the tube before this element replacement, and its flowing really well, but its not pulling the hot air down from outside the drum area, so its rising to the top of the dryer and making the surface too hot to touch, so I have unplugged it again.

My felt seal was not in place, so I replaced it, did not solve the lack of the blower to pull the hot air out, so I think I might need to take it completely apart again and check over it, also quick question; some thermostats had same color wires on this model, does it matter if the wires were changed in position? The only ones I had problems with were 2 wires the exact same on one thermostat, which was safety thermostat (thermal fuse). In any event it just seems like the blower is not moving the hot air out from the heating element area like it was before changing the element.

Quite odd, I have it sitting until the electrician looks at it, but I am almost confident it seems like a blower problem with pulling the hot air out, other then that the element, movement of normal temp air, and drum all seem to be working fine, no odd noises, turns fine, element cycling normally when on low, burning normal on high. I'm not using it at all after I was keeping my hand on top and felt it getting way too hot.

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for your tips denman, I have fixed it. The problem was on the 4 wire thermostat, i had two wires mixed up, there is one wire with two plugs on it, I had the alternate one set on the bottom instead on the top and side like it was supposed to be as in this picture below:



That picture shows the correct orientation, since they were all the same colors I had only known the copper/bronze colored ones would go on the top and bottom, and the white was on the far back left, but I did not know that the second wire was supposed to be on top and the solo blue wire with copper that looks just like the other is supposed to be on the bottom of the thermostat.

I'm not sure from a technical standpoint what it was causing, if the element was just over-heating because of these mixed wires, or if this was somehow effecting the blower (since it was for some reason only blowing normal temp air and not hot like it is now).

I ran it for 2 minutes, top was barely even warm compared to being super hot after 30 seconds before when I had the wires mixed up, so glad I watched that video and noticed that I might have got one of the wires wrong, I had drew a diagram of the colors, but didn't realize the two with same colors and plug ins needed to be orientated correctly or else it would result in the dryer heating up really hot to the touch on the surface, and the blower just blowing normal temp air out of the vent, it was odd. Anyway now that its fixed, maybe its something to keep in mind when someone else is having a similar problem, a cause for the overheating in my case was the top and bottom wire mixed on the 4-wire thermostat, can't believe how little of a mistake ended up in a week of google, lol.

Thanks again guys, this thread finished. Got the element from the appliance parts pro store working fine, the wires have fixed the overheating issue, all is golden now, appreciate it!! :D