Top 20 Kenmore 73952 Gas Dryer Questions & Answers

sounds like your heating element is bad

get some windex and clean the sensor strip located behind the filter ousing similar to this picture. Their might be something on it that is interfering with its moisture sensing ability. Check out my youtube channel about section for a link to a free dervice manual for you model. Thanks Dan Webster If you need further help, reach me via phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/dan_73bbd84fe1d95b61

It sounds like the drum is frozen. The squealing is from the motor slipping on the belt. There may also be something keeping the belt from tightning. Try these links: ShopYourWay Appliance411 Home Service Appliance Repair Manual for Whirlpool Kenmore... User Manual Downloads

The drive belt is broken and will need to be replaced.

Clean the vent area,there is residue their from the sheets and keep the lint screen clean.

Hello Bob; My name is Peter. I am a retired field service appliance technician. I assume you are not referring to the lint filter on the top of your dryer. Behind your dryer is a elongated hot air distribution manifold. Looking from the back of your dryer it is on the left. The manifold is fixed to the back of the dryer with screws. Unscrew the screws and remove the cover. In the bottom of this manifold is where air flow blockage occurs. Clean this inlet out. At this location you will not be exposed to any electrical or moving parts. Cleaning this outlet will enhance the dryer air flow and dryer performance.

This is very likely a relay problem. There is a black relay in the control head that engages when the start button is pressed. The relays tend to go bad now and then. They are a simple replacement and cost less than $15 or so.

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Could be your gas valve.

LOCATED ON THE BLOWER NEXT TO THE CYCLING THERMOSTAT

I had possibly a similar problem with a Kenmore 90 electric dryer. Sometimes pushing the start button would just make a buzzing sound, but the drum would not turn. I ended up replacing the motor and so far it seems to start up smoother and quicker. In the process of taking it apart, there was a surprising amount of lint piled up in front of the blower intake. This is after the lint screen and not really possible to get to without taking off the lower front panel and then removing the duct to the blower. Perhaps it was dragging on the blower and causing the motor to overheat. Worth looking at first, perhaps.

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if the flame is lighting you have lint blocking the air flow either in the dryer or in the vent line,also if you have a flame for the first 10 to 20 minutes and then the flame doesn't light you have bad gas coils located on top of the gas valve,when the coils are bad they can work for the first 10 to 20 minutes until the coils get hot and then they fail and you'll see the ignitor glowing orange but no flame,bad gas coils.then when the coils cool down they can work again.hope this helps.you can try removing the vent line from the back of the dryer and see if the flame stays on,if lint is blocking the air from blowing out the flame won't stay lit long enough to dry the clothes.

Centrifugal start switch, built into motor, may not be releasing when motor comes up to speed. A little light oil on sliding part of switch might help.

if the flame is lighting but the clothes don't dry you have a blocked vent line or lint blocked up in the dryer and needs to be cleaned out.

Normally a capacitor start motor will have the capacitor mounted on the motor in a rounded enclosure while a regular motor will have an uninturrupted round housing.

If the hum is loud I would suspect something is jammed and the motor is stopped leading to a heavy current running through the motor. After 5 or 10 minutes I would anticipate the circuit breaker would trip or the motor would burn up. If the humming suddenly stops then a thermal overload switch might be activating and when it cools down normal operation resumes. This is my only insight.

This is commonly a thermal switch. The switch is saying to the control that there is too much heat in the lint filter plenum so don't start to avoid a fire. It's located in the plenum somewhere and costs only a few bucks to replace. Call Sears with your model number. Of course, if you have the dryer apart you might as well clean it good and check the drive belts for looseness or cracking. Good Luck. -

See if you can move the drum up and down with your hand by pressing up on the inside of it. Could be a bad bearing.

push to start button needs replacing,sometimes you can jump that out if you have another switch that starts the dryer when you close the door