How to Troubleshoot & Replace Ge AP2620171 / WE11X10007 Heater Element Kit

Ordered the parts which were shipped and received in a timely manner as promised. Removed the top, front panel, drum, and then removed the sensor wires and terminal wires to the heater element. Removed the four screws from the heat reflector and pulled out the reflector with heater element according to the instructions provided with the heater element kit. Followed all instructions for removal and replacement of the two elements and reversed the order to put it back together. The most time consuming task was threading the new elements through the porcelain insulators. 

Got the parts I needed from AppliancePartsPros and found detailed YouTube videos to guide installation. Now our dryer works like new. Replaced the bearing slides also while I had everything apart. Runs quite and smooth now. 

Machine stopped heating. When taken apart found the heater coils broken. The new part arrived in a couple of days, instructions were easy to follow. Had extra insulators, but not to replace all, only two were broken so I replaced the broken ones. 

I bought the Heater Element Kit (restring coil) to save some money. That's just the tungsten wire and the insulators. I followed the instructions and it works fine. If I were to do it over, I'd spend the extra $55 bucks and get the entire GE Heating element assembly Part Number AP2619954. It would have saved a lot of time and testing to get the heating element evenly spaced so parts didn't overheat. Since it was already unusable, I wish I had disassembled the dryer before I ordered the parts. I found the Dryer Drum Front Support Bearing and the four glides had worn out, and I just ordered those replacement parts, and I will have to disassemble it again! I produce videos for corporations for a living, and I have to say that both the quality and the clarity of the Appliance Part Pros videos is excellent! 

Thank God for You Tube! That's where I found Appliance Parts Pros. And... That's twice that "theapplianceman" bailed me out with my electric dryer. Probably the best "how-to" videos around. This is the one I watched: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6RjciHNuc While watching his video, I was not aware that a heater element kit existed. Of course, I googled it, and wound up here. Purchased the kit, as well as the timer resistor. Had it in TWO days. And my dryer works great! I really don't need to explain the install because the video is all you'll need. I followed his instructions, to the letter, and had zero problems. I've had this dryer apart before, so the install was easy. Even if you're doing this for the first time, just follow along with the video, and be careful with the new coil. As long as you're paying attention, and don't force the coils into their positions, you should have no problems. Pay careful attention when stretching the coils, so as not to stretch them to far. That's probably the hardest part. New insulators come with the kit. I recommend using them, even if the existing ones look ok. They're easy to install. Once everything was in place... Wah-lahhhh. Works like new! And I saved over $100 by doing it myself! Trust me... this job was not tough, by any means. 

Replaced the coils and those retainers that were also deteriorated with this kit. 

Following included instructions 

Installed new heater restring kit, WE11X10007. Took maybe 1.5 hours to get the new coils fed through the insulators and get the dryer back together (with help of youtube videos). The heater assembly has 11 insulator brackets, but the kit only includes six replacements. This was disappointing as: -the reason I ordered the kit was that I had a bracket that was brittle and broken and, -this kit is the only way to get the brackets and, -I wanted to replace all of the brackets as some more looked brittle. So, I had to settle for replacing the brackets that looked the most dark and brittle. I hope I picked the right ones. Also, the belt tensioner pulley sides fell off when I took the dryer apart, so I had to replace that as well. It's working well now. 

Replace heating coils 

Disassembled dryer and replaced broken coils with new coil assembly and insulators. There were 11 double coils insulators in the dryer but the heater element kit only contained 6 replacements, so I had to reuse 5 of the old ones along with the 6 new ones.