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Posted on Mar 31, 2009

Maytag Model PYE2300AYW Heats for short time

My dryer is acting up once again. Last yr I replaced the thermo overload. Now it is heating for about 10 sec and then the element shuts down. I have removed the front of the dryer and cleaned everything out of the lint catcher and I have removed the dryer vent hose and cleaned it out as well. Took a light and looked in the hole where the hose hooks up to look for blockage. I hear a click when the dryer cools down like a thermo reseting or something. Any help would be great

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In most every case i have seen this happen, the dryer is connected to flexible venting. Flexible venting is the worst thing for a dryer. Rigid aluminum only. If your element shuts down that fast, it is definitely an air flow problem. Remove the front, clean out the lint screen housing from the spout to the blower, all the way to the lint screen so that it looks factory clean. The venting must be absolutely clean as it was the day it was put in new. The outside application, whether it is louvers, vent flapper, or ball vent, must be clean and operable as a new one. Once again, my suspicion is the venting as it is most likely a flexible type of venting with either excessive length or restricted flow. A dryer can only be vented for 30 ft. counting 5ft for every elbow and 5ft for the outside application. But the flexible equates as this...for every 1 foot of flex you must add 5 foot because of air restriction. I am surprised that the non resetable fuse has not blown yet. ( it will, trust me.)

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