Maytag Dryer Parts Guides — Complete Parts Guide

Eleven parts guides, and one of them gives its own advice in the title: the moisture sensor entry says to clean it first. That is the most useful sentence in the hub, because the sensor is a pair of metal bars in the lint path and a film of fabric softener on them is indistinguishable from a failure. The rest covers the lint screen, the blower wheel, the drum felt gasket, the heating element, the igniter, the motor, the door latch, the switch, the thermostat and the control board.

Clean before replacing generalises across this set. A load that stops while still damp on an automatic cycle is the sensor, cleaned rather than ordered. A load that takes forever on a timed cycle is airflow — lint screen, vent, then the blower wheel, whose hub cracks and lets it spin without moving air. The drum felt gasket is the part behind a scorched or snagged garment, and it earns a look when clothes come out marked rather than wet.

The two fuels bound this differently. A gas machine stops at the burner and its supply, since the hazard is a leak. An electric one stops at the element circuit and the 240 volt terminal block. Both share the vent, which is a fire risk when it is restricted and the reason a thermostat opened in the first place. EasyBear repairs Maytag dryers throughout Sacramento and the Bay Area.