Quick Steps:
- Remove the rear access panel by unscrewing the four screws and disconnect the wiring harness from the igniter.
- Remove the oven racks and bottom panel by lifting and sliding it out.
- Unscrew the two screws securing the flame spreader, then slide it forward and lift it out.
- Remove the old igniter by disconnecting its wiring (or pulling the wiring harness through the hole) and removing the mounting nuts.
- Connect the new igniter to the wiring harness (using wire nuts if needed) and secure it by aligning the screw holes and threading the screws.
- Reinstall the flame spreader by sliding it back into position and reattaching the screws.
- Replace the oven bottom panel by sliding it back and ensuring it engages the tabs, then reinstall the rear access panel.
Tools you’ll need
Small screwdriver, Nut driver
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Hi, this is Matt with AppliancePartsPros.com.
Today we'll be showing you how to repair your appliance.
Remember, anytime you work on an appliance, make sure it's unplugged or the circuit breakers
are off so there's no chance of electrocution.
Make sure to turn the gas shutoff valve off before the repair.
In this video, we're going to show you how to change out the oven igniter.
It's going to be a very easy repair and should only take a few minutes to show you how to do it.
If you already have one of these, great.
If not, you can click on the link below or get it at AppliancePartsPros.com.
When you open up the package, you're going to get a new oven igniter.
The main reason you'd be changing out the oven igniter is if the element itself shorted
out and it's no longer glowing or it is glowing but it's only glowing red or orange.
These things need to glow white hot in order to get hot enough to let the gas come out
of the safety valve.
In order to disconnect the wiring harness from the igniter, we have to remove the access
panel on the rear of the stove.
We have to go ahead and remove these four screws that hold it in.
Now that we have the access panel off, we can disconnect the igniter from the wiring
harness.
Just use your small screwdriver and pop it off and then we can take the plug and push
it back into the oven so when we're inside the oven, we can pull it through.
Now that we have the igniter disconnected at the back of the stove, we can get inside
the front of the oven and change it out.
First thing we have to do is remove the racks, get them out of the way so we can get the
bottom of the oven off.
Next thing we have to do is remove the bottom of the oven.
Ours doesn't have any screws that hold it down depending upon your model.
You may have a screw or a nut you have to remove.
But basically what you have to do is lift the oven up and then slide it towards the
rear and then lift it out.
Now that we have the oven bottom out, we can remove the flame spreader.
Ours is held in by two screws.
Once we have the screws out, just slide it forward so the rear tabs are out of the oven
wall and lift it up.
On ours, we had to disconnect the wiring harness in the back of the oven because the manufacturer
didn't give us enough wire to actually pull it out into the oven.
Pull the wiring harness through the hole.
Some of the ranges have enough wire that you can actually pull it out and disconnect the
igniter in the oven cavity.
That way you don't have to pull your oven out of the wall.
Your igniter may be held in by Phillips screws or flathead screws depending upon what style
you have.
Ours are held in by 5-16s nuts so we'll go ahead and remove those with our nut driver.
Here's the old igniter next to the new igniter.
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Sometimes when you get these igniters, it won't be an exact fit to your particular stove.
Sometimes when you get the new igniter, it's just going to have wire ends on it, no connection,
but it'll give you a couple of wire nuts.
So what you have to do is cut the connector off the old one, strip the wires, and use
the wire nuts to attach it to the new one.
They do that so they can make one igniter fit many different stoves.
In order to make this easier to put in, we threaded the screws into the igniter.
If yours will go in there and hold, it makes it easier to put them in later.
We can put the igniter into place, put the wiring harness through the hole in the back
wall of the oven, and line up the screw holes and mount the igniter.
Now that we have the igniter in, we have to go ahead and replace the flame spreader
in the oven bottom, and push it all the way forward, and push the back down, and then
slide it back.
Once you have it in place, go ahead and replace the screws, and then we can put the oven floor
back in.
So remember, ours goes in, up, and then press this lip underneath this lip, and then lower
the back onto the tabs.
Put the racks back in.
On the back of the stove, we have to reconnect the wire harness.
Make sure it locks in.
Remember, on some stoves, they give you enough slack to actually pull this out through the
hole without taking the back of the oven apart, so try that first before you come to
the back of the oven.
Now that we have it reconnected, we can go ahead and put our shield back on.
Now that you're done repairing your gas range, you can plug it back in and test it out.
Make sure to turn the gas shutoff valve on when you're finished with the repair.
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