279838 Dryer Heating Element 3977767 3392519 Dryer Thermostat kit Dryer Thermal fuse, Heating Element Dryer kit Assembly Replacement Whirlpool Kenmore Maytag Estate Crosley Amana

Product arrived quickly and came with a few extra parts that I exchanged along with the Heating element. My large family of 7 goes through 3 loads of laundry each day. And these parts have lasted 30 days of heavy duty use. I would recommend these parts to any Dad and or professional appliance tech.

This product taught me to take negative reviews slightly more seriously and even verified purchase positive reviews less seriously.This is one of the cheaper replacement parts for this model available, and it will prove that to you, good and hard. We received the product in short order, and aside from being at all useful for any length of time, it was exactly as advertised. Installation was fairly easy if you check out a few basic online videos, so you can have that to warm your heart when your heating coil no longer warms your wet laundry.As you may have guessed by now, we were not satisfied with this product. We thought it was perhaps getting a bit overheated quickly, but we had not tested the old part before it went bad, so we didn't have a lot of data against which to compare. For just under two months, from install in early September to Sudden, Ignominious Death just before Halloween, it worked fine, even if (ironically, given our earlier impression) laundry took longer to dry. Not a lot longer; maybe a quarter-cycle longer, sometimes a half-cycle longer.Would that the preceding two sentences were the end of the review.The dryer ceased drying clothes altogether, though it continued to tumble. We tried replacing fuses -- easier than replacing anything else -- and they were fine. Finally, we removed this part, and what to our wondering eyes should appear, but the coils were blackened and snapped, it was clear. Clean, beautiful snaps exposing silvery, cheap metal. Presumably, the overheating coil followed by normal cooling was too much for the abomination of an impression of pig metal out of which this thing was crafted.Having purchased a more expensive replacement, the differences are (sadly, only now) obvious. The construction is cheaper and clearly worse-engineered to redirect heat away from the coils; you can even see where heat is directed back by the addition of brackets (very cheap brackets that take the place of incrementally-slightly-more expensive forged/stamped clips). In a totally amazing turn of events, the areas most affected by that increased heat are exactly where the coils snapped! Mirabile dictu, it's true.Don't buy this. Please. If you do, for some reason, order it as a recurring item, and use the regular replacement you'll have to do to bring yourself to a level of expertise in your dryer's construction and operation normally reserved for things at which you'll make money or in which you'll find pleasure or at least emotional satisfaction.If I could give this zero stars, I would. I can't. I just tried, twice.Caveat emptor.

So, this seemed like a good value, but the item burnt out in less than a year. I am trying AMI to see if theirs work any better. The picture is of the item after 9 months. You can see it is really burnt, and it is looking much worse the wear than the original until which lasted ten years! on the original, there was no indication of this type of heat/wear. I'm probably lucky this thing didn't burn my house down.

Easy to install which is good because it will only last less than a year

Easy to install, all new parts and limit switches were provided. Got the dryer up and running again in a few mins.

direct replacement took less than 20 minutes

Purchased from Amazon, 13-sep-21 and installed. Easy installation but I am a Retired Senior Field Engineer for a global computer company and spent many years working contracts at NASA, MIT and various high technology entities. The heating element was installed to replace a 6-7 year old one. and lasted till earlier this week when I returned home from minor surgery, so I gave it 1-2 days before I opened it up and confirmed with my digital multimeter that the unit had opened. At the middle of one of the coils. None of the coils had been touched by human hands. The dryer is used by a great-grandmother both in our '70s. So excessive use was not the problem. Since there was no warranty or guarantee, a replacement has been ordered from another Amazon vendor that has a 100% lifetime guarantee.. At 72 years of age, it better last another 35to40 years..

Thank God for YouTube and Amazon. My dryer quit heating. After cleaning and replacing the vent hose, I determined the heating element was burned out. Ordered the parts and got them in less that a week with free shipping, put them in and dryer is working again. Thanks to this vender I saved $150 in service fees for a simple fix. Don't be afraid to try your own repairs, if this 68 year old woman can do it, anyone can!