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title: "Gas dryer igniter replacement"
description: "Kenmore gas dryer igniter replacement: a gas dryer that tumbles cold. The igniter, the flame sensor and the gas valve coils are the usual sequence, and they…"
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/services/gas-dryer-igniter-replacement/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Dryers"
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# Kenmore gas dryer igniter replacement

### About gas dryer heat problems

A gas dryer lights in a defined order, and where it stops in that order points at three different components. The mistake this repair is known for is fitting an igniter to a machine whose real problem is flame sensing: it lights, runs briefly, goes cold exactly as before, and a fragile part has been spent for nothing. Testing the sequence properly is what this figure buys. The vent is inspected as part of the job because on a gas machine airflow is a combustion matter as well as a drying one, and this is licensed work.

On this site the job covers dryers wearing the Kenmore badge, across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Tell us the three digits before the period on the rating plate when you book: they name the company that actually built the appliance, and on this badge that is where the diagnosis starts.

What this involves

Igniter flame sensor and coils tested in order

Gas work done by somebody licensed to do it

The vent checked here too

Watch an ignition attempt

Does the igniter come up to color, and if a flame appears, does it stay. Those are two separate observations and they lead to two separate parts.

Test the flame sensor

A sensor that has failed open stops the igniter from ever being asked to glow, which looks exactly like a dead igniter.

Test the valve coils

A dryer that glows and never lights is usually here. Coils are replaced as a set.

Check the vent and the safety circuit

Same reasoning as the electric dryer: restricted air opens protection, and protection that opens repeatedly has a cause.

Run it and confirm the flame cycles

Ignition, burn and cut-out watched over a full cycle.

### It heats for a minute and then goes cold.

That is flame sensing rather than ignition in most cases. The burner is lighting and something is failing to confirm it, and the fix is usually not the igniter.

### Can I fit an igniter myself?

We would advise against it. It is a gas appliance, the part is fragile enough to be damaged by handling, and the sequence needs verifying afterwards.

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