Whirlpool WP31760304B Knob- Ther OEM Part

The oven knob on my Amana gas range finally gave out after decades of use and would just spin in place. A simple search on appliancepartspros.com located the one I needed and I was able to use the "Appliance Compatibility Tool" to for added piece of mind. Two days later I had the replacement knob in hand and popped it into place. No more spinning knob.

I ordered the knob-ther and when it came I put it on and tried the oven but found the off position was in the wrong place. Since I was anxious to bake I purchased an oven thermometer (the numbers are worn off my stove) and made a couple zucchini breads which burned on the top and were raw in the middle. My husband said I probably had the broil on instead of the oven. So the next morning he looked at it and realized there was an adjustment on it which he tried but off was still in the wrong place so he took it apart and changed it around and lo and behold it worked! (He's a keeper!)

Popped on a new dial.

I ordered the Oven Bake Igniter and replaced it. I had replaced an oven igniter before and I was confident that I could replace this one. However, the job took me all day and I practically took the whole oven apart! Getting to the igniter from the front was easy. Finding the igniter electrical plug was difficult I was looking for an access door to the igniter electrical plug connection and didn't realize that there wasn't one until I had practically taken the whole rear of the oven apart. I found out, after careful examination, the the plug was accessible through a small 2 inch hole in the rear of the oven where the power wire entered the oven! I used a hooked coat hanger wire to pull the plug out, undone the plug and pulled the igniter out from the front. I should have tied a string to the plug to make it easier to reinstall the igniter when I pulled it out from the front. Tie the new plug to the string and pull it back through the hole from the rear. I lost a lot of time needlessly by taking apart the rear of the oven looking for an access door. The job should have taken me no more than half hour if I had figured out this from the beginning. I made an easy job difficult! If you don't do my mistake, this is an easy job to do.