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title: "Surface igniter replacement"
description: "Kenmore surface igniter replacement: a gas burner that clicks and clicks and will not light."
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/services/surface-igniter-replacement/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Cooktops, Ranges"
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# Kenmore surface igniter replacement

### About gas burners that click and will not light

Three checks resolve a genuine share of these and none of them costs anything: lift each cap and set it back squarely, clear anything that has boiled over into the ports, and dry the whole assembly if something has been spilled or the cooktop has recently been washed. We would rather publish that than take the call. Where it is the component, an igniter that has cracked or an electrode that has lost its gap will not spark reliably however clean the burner is — and on a gas appliance that is licensed work with the sequence verified afterwards.

On this site the job covers ranges and cooktops 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

Cap seating and ports checked first, for free

Igniter tested rather than assumed

The gas valve is rarely the answer

Cap seating and the port

Wet, misaligned or blocked, and all three are free to correct. A large share of these calls end here.

Look at the spark itself

Where it jumps and how strong it is. A spark going to the wrong place is a cracked insulator rather than a dead igniter.

Test the igniter and its lead

A chafed lead arcs to the chassis and starves the electrode.

Check the switch and the module

Where one burner sparks all the others as well, the switch is stuck and the igniters are fine.

Light every burner before we go

All of them, hot and cold, because a burner that lights once is not proof.

### It clicks constantly, even when switched off.

That is usually moisture or a cap out of position rather than a failed part. Dry everything thoroughly and reseat every cap before booking anybody.

### One burner will not light and the others do.

Then the spark module is working. Look at that burner's cap and ports, because a single dead burner among healthy ones is very often mechanical rather than electrical.

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