How to Troubleshoot & Replace Whirlpool AP3095830 / 326793 Oven Bake Element

APP has great parts search engine, found part,, watched video on how to repair, ordered part, it came in 3 days, fix took about 5min. saved around $175.00 in repair labor. Appliance repair man said it would take about a week to get part if he could find it,,,,,,$80.00 bucks to come to home and see what was wrong,,, and then another $90.00 to come again to repair..this fix cost around $20.00 total! 

The oven element wouldn't turn on. Visibly, you could see just a tiny spot on the element that glowed when power was turned on. There was a break in the element at that point with just a hair's breath of continuity. Looked up the oven model on the website. Ordered the part. Unscrewed the old element, pulled it slightly forward to disconnect the power wires, slipped in the new element and screwed it all back in place. Turned on the oven and it worked like a champ. The element emitted an odor as manufacturing residues burned off, but it only lasted a moment. 

Ordered part. Took out old element. Put in new element. It should have been a very easy task -- warning to others: unless you make sure the new element is *tightly* attached to the the electrical cables, one may fall off as you push the element into place, prompting a very difficult 'fishing' expedition to retrieve the electrical cable through the very small opening in the back of the stove. Other than that, the repair is easy. (Doing it right is 5 minutes & easy; losing the cable turns into 30 difficult minutes.) The problems were my own fault. 

The double oven was quite old and I couldn't find the correct replacement part for the lower heating element. I called the Help line and they submitted a Research ticket to figure which part would fit. A couple of days later I got an email with a link. I ordered only one heating element because I wanted to be sure it would fit before ordering the 2nd one. We got it and installed it and it was the correct part so a 2nd part was ordered. Help from the site allowed us to inexpensively repair our broken appliance. We are so thankful we didn't need to replace the entire double oven. Great team work by AppliancePartsPros.com. 

Knobs slid on post without issue . The lower element had to have the electrical connectors straightened and then slid the connecting wires on the male plugs. 

I found the model number and did a search online for the model and found the proper part listed in comments on this site. I was able to view the videos on replacement to get the general idea and simply unscrewed the element, disconnected it form the wires and put the new one on. Took about 5-10 minutes and was good to go. 

Took out the old one, put in the new one from Appliance Parts Pros. and the problem was solved. 

Bought a replacement unit. 

It's very simple, once I located the part, at AppliancePartsPros.com (which was in stock), I simply paid for it, and it was shipped and received within the time period that was promised. This electric stove is hard-wired, so I first turned off the breaker to the stove; unscrewed the two Phillips screws holding the element to the oven; unscrewed the two small screws (from the oven wiring) that hold the spade and lug connection; discarded the old element; and reversed the whole procedure with the new element.