I have a maytag gas dryer that will work spuratically. You can put a load in and it will dry in a noemal amount of time but if you open the door durning cycle it may not work the next time. It will tumble the clothes but will not heat up. Sometimes you can open the door and restart and it will be fine. I have taken back off cleaned all the lint out which there was no buildup. I have also tested most components but as I said I am not certain when I test them if it is failing at that time since it works when it wants to. I ran the unit for a couple hours trying to get it to fail and never did runing it through cycles stoping and re starting with no fail. My wife tried it an hour later and it wouldn’t work. I tried and it twice and it fired up. Any idea what the problem may be? Best I can determine is the coil
- Guest asked 8 years ago
HI. Yes, I am thinking the same thing. Sounds like you have weak gas coils. Typically when gas coils start to get weak, they will work when they are cold. So they will work when you first start the dryer after it has not been used recently. As the gas coils heat up the get weak and fail. This could be after a couple cycles at first and it progressively get worse to where you may get a couple mins of heat until they get weak and fail. When they do fail or not work, what happens is the igniter will come on and go back off with out any gas coming out, so no flame. This is the most common thing I see with your symptom. Usually the coils are the only part to cause an intermittent heat issue unless there is something very unusual happening. One thing to check as well is the timer. I have seen some timers that intermittently will cause no heat. While the unit is heating wiggle the timer knob back and forth and see if you heat cuts out. Attached are some videos on gas coils.
- Brian, Ace Appliance answered 8 years ago
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